I suppose that would depend on what you put inside that $3k mac.
But the issues with Metal remain and will continue to remain until Apple either fixes Metal to make it a more Vulkan-like target, or adds really good Vulkan support. This is all not even to mention that Mac laptops tend to have far too high a resolution for the onboard GPU to perform well for any but the most rudimentary games hopefully this has been addressed with the M1 batch having a much more powerful GPU. IMO that's the biggest reason by far why people stopped bothering to port new games to Mac between not updating OpenGL past 4.1 at best and Metal being so idiosyncratic, it's just not worth it, and since people have learned gaming on Macs sucks (largely because of the outdated and idiosyncratic APIs), most people who want to play games on a Mac have just been installing Windows anyway. Hence, the easiest thing to do for most games is to just drop Mac support and not worry about it. There are also entire features (like geometry shaders) missing from Metal for many common usecases you can replicate the functionality with something else, but usually not in a way that easily translates to any of the other APIs (and pretty much nobody on Earth writes games just targeting Macs). As a random example, border color is limited to 2 or 3 colors for Metal, and has no restrictions at all for anything else. Many, many features need to be restricted or put behind feature flags due to either lack of Metal support, or Metal having bizarre restrictions compared to other platforms. For some indication, check out a lot of issue threads for WebGPU (the Rust cross platform graphics library).
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