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Nvidia support was there... just not for eGPU's. The Web drivers were officially sanctioned releases, mainly for Mac Pros running Nvidia cards, but both companies were cool with them. The hacks by the egpu.io community were to do with getting Nvidia cards working in eGPUs and older (TB2) machines, something to do with something like PCI Tunnelling I believe.
Good call holding off buying any 1st gen Apple products, I shall try that...
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The thing about NVIDIA support is that it was never officially there in the first place, almost everything has been a hack/workaround by the egpu.io community. At the same time, Apple has been countering with increased security in the form of the T2 chip. What Apple didn't need to do IMO was refuse to support older OSs on machines that contained the T2 chip whilst simultaneously refusing to approve NVIDIA's drivers for Mojave/Catalina.
This last point is critical - if you buy a machine today with a relatively small hardware change like the T2 chip, you are obliged to use Mojave/Catalina by Apple. You cannot install HS on a Mac with a T2 chip. So Apple has form here.
So when @CYOA says:
There's a pretty good chance that it just won't be possible to simply roll out a patch for many applications because it's not only a HW but also an OS change and crucially it's about the new way in which the OS uses the new HW. So a major HW change like a new CPU architecture is, IMO, quite likely to be problematic for many software applications, and not just for the obvious reasons.
Personally I wouldn't buy a new model MBP within the first 6 months of release because all the fanboi noise makes it hard to objectively evaluate any major issues like this...