They could have an iMac with a floppy drive. At the time, CDs were already popular enough, and external floppy drives were available. They didn't just drop the thing everyone's using.
They were nice sometimes, like with Rosetta (and v2).
A hardware example of when Apple dropped the thing everyone's using: The 2016 MacBook Pro forced a cutover to USB-C when it was at about 0% adoption, and it was a mess.
They were nice sometimes, like with Rosetta (and v2).