
Video director for the Verge, Owen Grove, dives into answering this question by speaking to experts and trying to use the iPad Pro as his work device while mirroring macOS.
You can get some resons but, for me, I would rather use Linux on an smartphone instead of any Apple products. Wait... I already have Linux on my smartphone, Android being Linux based (just another Linux distro with some specific interface apps). And for the moment, until the next generation of mobile devices that will contain computer and smartphone in one device I will continue Android or, most probably, just replace it with another Linux distro (no Google inside).