@manton the want for Stage Manager across all iPads can be looked at as a failure of Apple to previously delegate certain hardware and software features to Pro models. They did this with ProMotion, and even with the Pencil. Portrait mode was another feature. But for the most part, Apple hasn’t done a great job of designating “pro” usecases, versus personal-enough computing.

However, if in those who are asking for a neutered version of Stage Manager are doing so because Apple misconstrued (a) premise of the iPad as personal-enough computing, then it probably needs to be Apple fixing their messaging about iPad and iPad Pro, not simply making backwards compatibility a means for it to middle the message further.