I'm not sure they have. When Macs came with Intel processors, everyone who wanted to play games on their Mac just booted into Windows for gaming, so there wasn't much pressure to make them work on the MacOS side. Because Bootcamp no longer works, Apple is under increased pressure to improve game performance.

> I have zero faith that they move the gaming needle

My faith is placed in the fact that they have been pouring resources that amount close to billions on making gaming a thing on iPhones and Macs.

As a long time Mac and iPhone gamer, I have seen slow and steady incremental progress. I'm personally excited for the new GPU.

Besides, I think they get the benefit of the doubt at this point. This is Apple, not Google, after all.