Really, now that apple is only making products for the humans in WALL-E and not developers, we only have one option. That's to stock up on the last good developer MacBooks (up to 2015) and spare motherboards. Once those give out or become too incompatible, load them with linux, or switch to better machines from other companies who still care about developers.

I guess the era of MacBooks being the choice for professionals is over. However, I guess all good things like this have to end sometime.