Did you read the article? His entire premise is now that consumers have finished with the desktop, we can get them back to being workstations again, unencumbered by the requirements of consumers.
Talking about how iOS is great for consumers but doesn't have a good keyboard is a bit tone deaf.
My bad. Sorry I Skim Read it, Headlines and Tl;dr. May be he should name it as Workstation OS, although I guess all "Desktop" are pretty much Workstation these days.
But if Non-Consumer, Workstation OS is what we want, then I value backward compatibility over everything else. Which means everything he wanted to remove are here to stay.
Talking about how iOS is great for consumers but doesn't have a good keyboard is a bit tone deaf.