QuoteXPS had touchbars before long long ago during the core 2 duo times. So it is weird they chose to make the same mistake twice
But those involved in developing models have long since changed, as have marketers. This is a new young greedy shoot that does not care at all about the experience of previous generations. Their motto is we will write everything from scratch (reinvent the wheel) because we are smarter and because we generally don't care.
In large corporations, only the process of drinking the budget and the income flowing into their pockets is important, nothing more. With each new hungry wolf cub, everything repeats itself in a circle, while the corporation still has enough profit from somewhere to survive. Or government subsidies at the expense of taxpayers for kickbacks to officials...