You seemed to be arguing that Apple was at risk of losing its developers for iPad if it didn't make it suitable as a development platform. That's not plausible.

You seem to be responding to a higher-level comment saying "developers are not the target audience" with "but it's not suitable for developers", which... yeah?

Long-term, there are likely to be iOS development tools that allow this. They may not be this year, or the next, but given that iOS already has Git clients, code editors, and even sandboxed programming environments like Pythonista and Scriptable, it's hardly ridiculous to think that an iOS equivalent to XCode is already under development.

I don’t. I think the iPad doesn’t have to replace 100% of laptop uses.