[piker]

There are a whole lot of downsides to that approach. Most applications don't do it, although perhaps it does make sense for the general audience like mine. Fortunately, however, a lot of Macs are using Chrome or Firefox that expose this info.

[dangus]

It’s also worth noting that nobody’s going to be shipping Intel binaries in a short 2-5 years so this problem will just go away on its own.

The user base won’t even be there anymore.

This is not just because people will be retiring old Intel systems, it’s also because Apple’s marketshare exploded when the M1 chip came out, so a very large portion of the userbase never owned an Intel Mac.