I’m in my 50s, started computing on the display model TRS-80 Model III at the local Radio Shack on Saturday afternoons, and I think the iPad is the best computing device ever made. It feels like “the future”.
It is my most used computing device and I have a 2017 15” MBP, and a 2020 iMac with 64GB RAM. I don’t have pokey computers. The clamshell form factor to me is super clunky compared to my iPad when lounging throughout the house, surfing the web, paying bills / doing home finance, watching videos, etc.
I use the larger computers basically for anything the iPad just cannot do. Converting audio files, USB device I/O, Arduino programming, raspberry Pi stuff, 3D printing stuff, and some other audio stuff. For now, all of these things require more than iPadOS delivers.