I've seen similar thread voicing technical concern about rosetta, but how big of a concern is this in reality for the average Mac user, for s/w that is only used for a limited time of the year. Someone said Rosetta uses a lot of disk I/O which can impact lifespan of SSA drives. If this was safari or excel I'd be concerned. You're voicing concern as tho even installing rosetta is a big no-no. I am running a new Mac Mini M4, TT 2024 worked fine didn't need to install anything so either TTX is installing rosetta or it just comes with the O/S, haven't noticed any performance issues.
Guess we'll see in a few months what the 2025 version brings maybe you can ask some early adopter here what binaries are delivered so you can decide what to do, but I'd be surprised if they change tack until forced to do so by Apple stopping OS support for Intel H/W.
Intuit's online business is about $4bn revenue and growing vs. $200mil for desktop, I don't think they mind losing some long-time desktop users to issues like this or Win 10 end of life, if they're picking up enough people to keep growing and upselling their online services...
