I'm not as certain about that as you are. I think there are - as always - different streams withing that mega corporation. It is probably sales-oriented people wanting nothing but AAA games on the App Store and be okay with the Mac not being a major choice for games if that doesn't happen. The other stream is probably more enthusiastic (especially with the Apple Silicon being "enough" gaming machines for 1080p@60) and wants to bring gaming over - that is probably the stream that made GPTK happen and give a licensing exception to crossover to be able to integrate it in their department. I'm in the later department, hoping we will see a proton-like GPTK that can run my steam library.
Well regarding the Macbook/Laptop case vs. Desktop: With me typing this on the MacMini M2 base model (8GB/256GB) retailed at 650€ I can assure you, it is a nice gaming machine hardware-wise. Not for latest and greatest AAA games of course, but I played through all the Tomb Raider reboot games on this machine (using Rosetta2 as they are non-native on Steam) on High details with 1080p. Now the major issue is software, there is just not enough games available. I do use Heroic+Crossover Wine to run some other games, but it is just finnicky and only for the pro user - not average casual gamers.
Saying this, Apple could launch a 999€ Mac Mini with focus on gamers with a custom M4 design soon, if they
had a proper Proton-like layer. Heck, size & noise wise, the Mac Mini beats the current PS5 and Xboxes. But they only treat GPTK as a solution for developers, not gamers. And I highly suspect, this is only due to the fact that they won't get any percentage from games sales, as Steam is the dominant player here.
I'm not as certain about that as you are. I think there are - as always - different streams withing that mega corporation. It is probably sales-oriented people wanting nothing but AAA games on the App Store and be okay with the Mac not being a major choice for games if that doesn't happen. The other stream is probably more enthusiastic (especially with the Apple Silicon being "enough" gaming machines for 1080p@60) and wants to bring gaming over - that is probably the stream that made GPTK happen and give a licensing exception to crossover to be able to integrate it in their department. I'm in the later department, hoping we will see a proton-like GPTK that can run my steam library.