Actually adding useful stuff back in and removing gimmicky bullshit like the stupid fucking touchbar from their expensive “Pro” laptops? This doesn’t sound like Apple at all. I feel for anyone who bought an Apple laptop in the last 3-4 years, except not really because it’s their own fucking fault for choosing to buy an inferior product.
NO MORE TOUCH BAR 
Personally I would had enjoyed trying the Macbook touch bar. The price sounds outrages but it's an Apple product so it's to be expected. If I managed to win enough money at the casino I would purchase a Macbook. Sure I could probably find a better alternative for a better price but I would like to have a computer or laptop that's better than the prebuilt IBUYPOWER PCs I had over the years.
14-inch is almost $2K including student discount and taxes
I don't know if that's worth it or not
Apple has had great sales numbers, but I’m glad they recognized the touch bar and USB C only was bullshit.
As someone who has a touch bar MacBook, the novelty wears off rather quickly. It's one of those things that is kind of cool, but in terms of doing simple tasks it adds an extra barrier. I don't know how much you know about it so I shall explain as if you do not.
Of those I really only care about no USB-A - I'll gladly accept that an MBP which is a few millimeters thicker to get all the other ports back. And at any rate you're risking having perfect be the enemy of good - not just good, but much better. But suit yourself.
They look fat enough to accept a USB-A, so I don't get why the 14" and 16" MacBooks don't have it. I really need to go to the store and take look at it myself.
It's hard to imagine they're selling any of them at this point as well. Who on earth is going to pay full price for machines on the brink of being not only completely outdated, but basically incompatible with the Apple ecosystem going forward?
To be fair, I can imagine them sticking with Intel for the Mac Pro for a little bit longer, as it's going to be hard for them to create anything remotely similar with the current M1-type designs.
Jobs said the same thing when Apple was switching to Intel, and it was almost certainly to make it so Intel Mac users didn't get buyers remorse and to make sure sales didn't fall off a cliff before they actually had a ARM machine
Not really, they pretty much have the CPU design down, it's just making the graphics good enough will trade blows with the most powerful stand alone gpus, which we've been hearing rumours that apple's been putting effort into doing for a few years. Plus all you have to do is modify the chip to have support for expansions cards and have people write drivers for said cards and you have a Pro Machine
Software might be one additional reason. The software Mac Pro users use might not be available on a potential M1 Pro, so why would they buy a new one?