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PCIe slots help you with lots of things:
Space for internal drives is also nice to have lots of storage.
Now you have to put everything into external enclosures leading to lots of cables, more power supplies, more mess, higher costs.
Yes, and the pros who use these for audio and video production were historically using a lot of specialty cards on PCIe but the impression I had was the support wasn’t great for the M-series Mac Pros, that the chips didn’t have good support for it because that was the only model using it
Apple neglecting its loyal core market of creative professionals.
There are now so many hubs like this one to make a Mac Studio of Mac mini work for a demanding setting with extra ports, faster networking, card readers, space for SSDs, more monitor connections, etc.
It’s a really crowded market of very similar products, some great, some pretty bad.
Not the best user experience.