Well don't be a bunch of pussies! Put your names to your open letter, so the company can properly evaluate your collective value to the company in comparison to the $10 billion DoD contract.
Mac used to have some nice niche specialties in photo editing and desktop publishing. I don't think they have much of an advantage there anymore. It looks like they are focusing on Mac as primarily an iOS dev platform going forward.
Trust me, you don't want one of these. They are host-managed, which means either the file system or a filter driver needs to explicitly manage the I/Os to be compatible with the SMR band requirements. It isn't going to work like a regular block device.