Conclusion
If Apple wants to make a MacBook Pro, they should quit with the design fundamentalism on a machine costing £2800 (£2800 is a ton of money for an ordinary laptop, which apart from the display, this is) and quit with what seem like cost-cutting measures in the name of power efficiency. This machine is no doubt powerful. It never struggles with software, everything runs at a decent clip (when the power is plugged in) and it's stable, but it's not a Pro machine - just about any decent PC laptop at not much more than half the price of my MacBook Pro will give me "Pro" functionality.
I say make it faster, make the battery bigger, make the laptop slightly thicker, make the keyboard decent (heck just make it like the Magic Keyboard), get rid of the Touch Bar, make the display a 16" 4K HDR OLED, bring back some kind of MagSafe, bring the lit Apple logo back, bring back the SD card slot, add three USB 3 slots, make the trackpad smaller, beef up the GPU so that it can handle VR and games, and make it £4000. I'll buy it. In the meantime, drop the price on this experiment and stop calling it a Pro. It doesn't feel any more Pro than the standard MacBook.
(Via Six Colors)
This write-up nails every issue I have with the MacBook Pros since the 2016 models were released (and to a lesser extent the MacBook). I'll wait and see what Apple comes out with later this year before I pull the trigger on a decked out used 2015.