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This isn't an Apple thing. It's universal and has been since the advent of VR headsets.
VR headsets didn't need a pass through system so it often got the chop for cost purposes.
The AVP doesn't need it either. It's designed mostly for a seated experience. Pass through exists simply because Apple chose to include it and up the price accordingly, something most competitors have skipped in order to keep costs down.
There is no right or wrong decision here.
AR headsets on the other hand do need to see the outside world.
Owning a Quest, I would like to have pass through even though it isn't necessary. But then I wouldn't have bought it in the first place because the price would have been out of my comfort zone (just as the AVP price is also out of the comfort zone of most users).
It's all about trade offs and what you want to include or not.
Apple won't have any real new ideas to bring to a ring and Apple isn't as well positioned as others to integrate it into the ecosystem. In that sense, all of Apple's current OSes remain siloed by design and were never designed for seamless integration in the way that systems like HarmonyOS have been.
A ring is an IoT device and will only really be able to shine in an environment designed for IoT. No current Apple OS is designed for that.
One of the 6G highpoints is 'network sensing' and almost everyone in the ICT field (including Apple) is working on that. The idea being that some kinds of wearables will become unnecessary for certain tasks and it looks like sleep tracking could be one of those.
Most people have the same ideas on things like a ring. The difference is the technology and cost of bringing them to market.
I've been looking at the Rikki ring solely for tap to pay without a phone and knowing full well it's designed to do basically just one thing.
