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It really seems like every other review of a ThinkPad is written by someone who's constantly whining about the dimensions of the device (too thick, to bulky) and/or the design, with most of them ending up begging Lenovo to remove the useless nub thing on the keyboard because no one uses it anyways and while they're at it a larger touchpad and better speakers and bla bla...
Basically, most reviewers expect everything to be a MacBook clone and can't cope with the fact that business users don't necessarily care about a fancy design.
The reasons old ThinkPads were are better than MacBooks (except for being old) are about design too.
For me ThinkPads are beautiful and convenient, while MacBooks are ugly and inconvenient.
Most people simply don't have an opinion of their own, they get theirs from "social media influencers" (something that once meant the leaders of that clueless crowd, usually bribed by companies, and now means in fact not separate humans, but teams, employed by companies).
And that's where Apple shined, it really managed to promise apes a lift in status by backing them. Almost a Fender Stratocaster level feeling. Not just that, if you do some digital archaeology, you'll find that around year 1999 many people seriously considered Apple to be some kind of counterculture, underground etc thing. That doesn't work anymore, because Steve Jobs lost the battle against his own ignorance and died, but frankly I think it stopped working after iPhone. Wrong kind of propaganda and wrong kind of audience to be compatible with the old image.
Still that image was rather strong. One can still sometimes find traces of it. Hotline and KDX software, and that idea of convenience of GUI programs.