Not sure why you are being down-voted. We're already seeing this with the team saying they won't work on M3 yet because they aren't even close to done with M2...

actually they're saying they're close to getting M3 support and the big thing that has prevented work on it as the lack of a M3 Mac Minis.

How is that apple's fault, nor any form of "deliberate attack"? Like, come on, neither of the parties are malicious, especially not for the sake of it.

I didn’t say it was anyone’s fault. It’s the reality of a closed system.

Why don't new Intel or AMD chips require painstaking reverse engineering with each release?

Historically they do, and currently they don't because their biggest market is server machines where Linux is the de facto choice. It's a life or death question for them to properly support the Linux kernel.

In one search I'm able to pull up Pentium documentation from 1995 as well as recent documentation from 2023. Show me the equivalent Apple Silicon docs that a compiler engineer could use.