They don‘t want to sell Ipads anymore it seems to me. Raising prices is one thing going nuts another. But I read its not going well. Next Iphones are going to be cheaper for example they say.
I use an old 10.5 iPad Pro with my synths, have it connected to a class compliant audio interface, and I have my synths connected to AUM with FX/compressor on each channel. It’s basically my mixer/fx unit/audio recorder/softsynth unit. Haven’t found real shortcomings yet.