Apple, bring back the MacBook Pro 17 and make your laptops great again

Apple is used to criticism from PC partisans, but with its first major redesign to the MacBook Pro line in years, it found itself unexpectedly taking fire from its own fan base. The new laptop was underpowered, Mac users complained, lacked ports that people actually use, had low-to-zero serviceability, and that “improved” butterfly keyboard still wasn’t that great. 
The point that seems to uniformly burn pro users is the maximum amount of RAM: just 16GB of LPDD3/2133. The