Hackintosh community has some of the extraordinarily talented developers, who has over the years developed sophisticated tools and methodologies to run vanilla macOS on non Apple hardware[1] or on AMD CPU with custom kernel.

Apple so far hasn't explicitly indulged in sabotaging hackintosh scene(Only those who sold pre-built hackintosh hardware incurred Apple's wrath), in-fact some hackintosh specific kexts where whitelisted officially in the macOS few iterations back when kext signing became mandatory.

Apple's blind eye towards hackintosh made sense as besides increasing penetration for macOS, it provided access to iOS app development in markets where price of Apple hardware was the primary barrier to entry unlike Android development.

But, interest for hackintosh seems to be declining steadily[2] since it's peak in 2008(snow leopard 64bit?); may be because tools for hackintosh are very stable now, macOS hasn't undergone major architectural change until now (or) is it economic uptrend around the world which makes entry level MacBook a promising investment for iOS development.

Anyways, things have changed today; macOS Big Sur is the official transition of macOS to iOS with better mouse and keyboard support. Would apple lockdown MacBooks further to the level of iPhone/iPad that, macOS upgrades wouldn't be available as separate package on Mac AppStore? I don't see a reason why it wouldn't in the future.

macOS upgrades available as a separate downloadable package is crucial for hackintosh, without it accessing macOS would amount to piracy.

Would this rekindle the hackintosh development to support other ARM hardware(RPi 6?) for macOS or will Apple doubling down on lockdown kill the hackintosh scene for good in this decade.

[1]https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/73-developers-corner/

[2]https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=hackintosh