If they were really committed to the pro market, they'd just release a new Mac based on the cheese grater Mac Pro from 2012.
Instead they have to spend 2 years making it beautiful. Some kind of unique design. As if the reason I want a high end desktop is so it can look good.
By all means, go work on something spectacularly beautiful. Take all the time you want. While you're doing that, how about a basic tower with some fast chips, fast graphics, a boatload of memory and a some ports and a big fan. You know, a computer as opposed to a fashion statement.
For the pro though? I get that it is for all their other stuff. But the Mac Pro is a very specific market segment, and they probably mostly care about performance, peripherals, and being able to seamlessly use OS X rather than configuring a hackintosh.
The fashion statement is what they did with the last Mac Pro, which they've clearly (finally) realized was a big mistake. I'm sure the next one will look nice enough, but I'll bet it also prioritizes function over form.
It's not all just about beauty. It depends what they're working on. They have a track record of actually designing or collaborating on customization of the chips and chip sets of their systems to do things other manufacturers cannot do, like the in-house design for the timing controller chip in the 5K iMac. It's this sort of bespoke engineering that enables them to charge the premiums that they do. Bear in mind these are the buffoons that have been earning more profits from their Mac line than the whole of the rest of the PC industry put together for most of the last 15 years. Seems to work well for them in Phones too.
But they don't have to design a computer. It's all commodity x86 parts. They could rebadge a fast enough machine from off-the-shelf parts in a case that looks Apple-ish. They're not doing that, and you can go with all the reasons they may not want to, but there is probably a market for doing just that.
Maybe the reason for wait is that there's few fresh technologies upcoming that need these 2 year to mature to be viable - remember, they wanted Pro to be future-proof to some extend.
One can argue that current iphone/ipad is not future proof due to non-usb-c port, for example.
Instead they have to spend 2 years making it beautiful. Some kind of unique design. As if the reason I want a high end desktop is so it can look good.
By all means, go work on something spectacularly beautiful. Take all the time you want. While you're doing that, how about a basic tower with some fast chips, fast graphics, a boatload of memory and a some ports and a big fan. You know, a computer as opposed to a fashion statement.
What a bunch of buffoons.