ipads have a non-insignificant footprint as point of sales systems these days too, so I wouldn't say ipads are _only_ a consumption device. They are also a pretty solid task specific unit for certain specific industries.

If that were the case, do you think Microsoft and Adobe spent money on development of Office and Photoshop foolishly?

The iPad Pros are credited with stopping the slide of iPad revenues - along with all of the accessories.

For illustration the iPad pro is my go-to production device.

The main exception is drawing. It essentially replaces touch sensitive Wacoms.

The iPad Pro keyboard is pretty slick for what it is.

Software developers continuing, after all these years, to dismiss any kind of creative work with a computer that isn’t typing, is crazy. I’d take an iPad over a laptop or desktop computer for lots of creative work, if I could only have one device.