Poor performance of Macbook Air M1

That's a pretty niave answer, if it were simple then developers would be doing so to keep their users happy. There is something more fundamental that is stopping this from happening and Apple does bear some responsibility for designing in incompatibility into their new platforms. I would suggest that some testing to prove the platform could be used widely with existing applications is not an unreasonable assumption by any apple customer. Apple supposedly pride themselves on the ease of use but in this case they have failed. Effectively I was sold on the reputation of apple and the experience of having the previous macbook air only to find I have been sold a "Betamax" version of the macbook air. It's a backward step and I would not recommend anyone to buy this get a windows platform.