Yeah, I think "pro" just means "expensive" :)

My assumption has always been that the "Pro" line is aimed at content creators. Because in lots of professional work you would want a plethora of ports which Apple doesn't give you.

When they started removing ports I use I switched to a Thinkpad T-series. It's been the perfect laptop for my use.

Faders are the right abstraction for a lot of pro media stuff. The touch bar is an okay middle ground between keyboard/mouse and a separate hardware control surface.

Can you do audio or video scrubbing with FN keys? Have you used touchbar with Photoshop or similar apps? A Pro User doesn’t mean “software developer” — there are a lot of other pros that really love the touchbar.

Seems that their idea of "pros" are mostly people like music creators and photographers, not really developers.

I mostly think of it as the emoji bar. It's genuinely useful for people (pros and non-pros) who type a lot of emojis to have them on the keyboard. But it's certainly not specifically a pro feature, I agree 100%.

Apple probably has better data on how it gets used than I do, but that's almost exclusively what I'd use it for if I had it.

The new air pods are called Air Pod Pro. What does pro mean in this context?

AirPod Pro.