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Sorry I didn't intend it to be a gatekeeping thing or trying to define who isn't or is a professional. I apologize it was poorly worded.

I think a diagram better explains what I'm trying to say.

What I feel like Apple's target audience was in the past with their 'Pro' lines:

https://imgur.com/a/ydLdE

What I feel like Apple's target audience is now with their 'Pro' lines:

https://imgur.com/a/dGI9R

It still meets the requirements of a lot of professionals, and a lot of professionals are still going to use them. I'm not trying to say 'whether or not you are a professional is directly related to whether or not you use a macbook pro'. It is just that apple seems to be slowly targeting their "pro" lines more towards the consumer who like pro stuff side to capture more of that market than they are trying to move toward the professional side to capture more of that market. Instead of getting more ports and longer battery life at the sacrifice of weight, we get things like the touchbar and ever thinner machines that have trouble living upto the battery expectations. For a bunch of professionals that doesn't matter, it isn't what makes a macbook pro fit their requirements. But there seems to be a very vocal segment of professionals who sit on that left most edge concerned that what apple calls 'pro' is moving further away from meeting their requirements than closer.

Edit: it might be more clear to say the green circle is people who find a macbook pro to meet their requirements.