I'm able to use a ThinkPad X200 as my daily driver actually, but then again I don't use any bloatware.
On occasion I do use Kdenlive and OBS, but that's exclusively on my desktop which has high end modern hardware (high end at the time I built it, which was last year, but perhaps it's already considered low end now because it only has 16 GiB of RAM).
Web browsers are bloatware too, but good luck visiting the clearnet using Dillo, Netsurf, or one of the TUI browsers.

I have no problems with supporting the indie laptop market at all, by all means I'd encourage you do so.
The reason I don't is because none of them ship with a JP-106 keyboard layout, which I grew so accustomed to since childhood, and all the western keyboards have fewer keys, the missing keys are really crucial, so it's not just a matter of putting keyboard stickers on the keys like one of them told me to do.