People have been begging for MacOS on the iPad... and here it is, but in different clothing. The Neo is just a test bed before committing MacOS to the iPad.
It has an iPad chip, and is at an iPad price --- if it sells well, and doesn't gut iPad sales, then maybe we'll get Mac OS on iPad (but I'm not holding my breath) --- a more interesting development would be for someone to work out how to transfer the Mac OS from a Neo onto an iPad w/ the same chip.
Dear lord in heaven I hope this is true. My work laptop is an M2 Air and I recently got them to spring for an M5 iPad Pro as a companion device. Whenever I'm using it as a wireless second screen I am acutely aware that it both has a larger display and significantly more powerful processor than the laptop it's serving as an extension of.