Soldato
I agree with that and in those situations I suspect people will bypass the MBA and buy the MBP.They will never straight up merge the two completely, but you'd be a fool to think that iPadOS and macOS won't eventually share a lot in terms of the way they work and the under the hood code
And besides, even if they did go as far as merge the two completely, an iPad will never replace a proper laptop/desktop for a lot of workflows. As much as XCode/Visual Studio being on iPad is top of my wishlist, it will never prevent me doing the majority of my development on desktop simply because the form factor, keyboard etc just don't lend themselves to proper coding