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That’s what Steve Jobs told me. He told me that exact thing: “We’re making products for consumers, not quality.” So they don’t want audio quality. They don’t want to spend a lot of time on that.

Tyranny of the minimum viable user.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

In the form factor given for a macbook, I'm not sure anything could be done to truly satisfy the true audiophile. It's almost easier not to try since adding $100 to the cost of the system won't add $100 of value for 99% of the people and still won't satisfy the other 1%.
Young's specific gripe was DAC conversion.

Given external mics are already being used for capture, that should be a small HW/SW requirement, and a generally solved one.