thats just blatantly false claims. At least document those supposed hardware short-cuts then.
The main problem is that specs nowadays have become meaningless. Thunderbolt has so many variations, same with displayport and hdmi and usb. Anything in the chain can choose to embed whatever spec in whatever way they want. Its almost impossible to predict upfront if someting will work out of the box or not, especially with things like docks and dongles.
This is a very common thing that all PCs can do and you'd expect a top end ($$$$) laptop to be able to do. But because of proprietary choices in the boot process M1 consoles can't.
The main problem is that specs nowadays have become meaningless. Thunderbolt has so many variations, same with displayport and hdmi and usb. Anything in the chain can choose to embed whatever spec in whatever way they want. Its almost impossible to predict upfront if someting will work out of the box or not, especially with things like docks and dongles.