I owned the first gen white MacBook and the presence of that off ramp was a critical selling point for me. It turned out I never ended up using Boot Camp, and it wasn't until years later that I even installed Parallels. But knowing that I could if I needed to was key.
Between my big Linux desktop and M1 Macbook Air I'm not even sure what to do in Windows anymore. I don't need to run any Windows applications per say, and everything I do really need runs on MacOS. I still have a VirtualBox Win10 install on the Linux box, but honestly I'm not sure why, besides habit.
