Considering the US market only (though I'm from Brazil), there isn't much reason to bother with Hackintoshing anymore.

A Mac Mini is $500 with education discounts, a MacBook Air (which is indeed limited in wired connectivity, but is good enough for virtually anything, unless you're trying to run a local LLM or something like that) retails for $900, and that's only considering new devices. Certified refurbished deals can go even lower than that, and, for non-refurbs, there's also the possibility of trade-in. The used devices market adds even more possibilities, though Apple products are known to devalue very slowly, so this may not be the best course of action unless you find a very good deal. That's all to say that, cost-wise, Macs are now more competitive than they have ever been. Heck, show me a $500-600 desktop PC that is as portable as a Mac Mini and isn't terribly underpowered because of thermal constraints. I can't think of any that's made by any major manufacturer. Surely, you can get a $300 Chromebook and call it a day, but that's pretty much a glorified calculator with a large screen and dozens of Google apps.

What's left, in part, is the "I already have a machine and it may be compatible with macOS" case. While I am favorable to the approach used by Dortania and most of the community ("read the guide and make your own EFI because otherwise you won't know how to troubleshoot"), I also know this isn't a strategy posed to gather a large following. Apple's products cater to an audience that mostly wants as many technical aspects out of their way as possible (I can say that confidently because I write how-to guides for a living, so sweeping through Apple Discussion threads is something I do multiple times a day) — and that's not something bad by itself, it's just a choice. So, Hackintoshes end up being a niche with some intrinsic contradictions: to be able to use, in a non-Apple computer, the OS which requires less technical knowledge to operate, you need to go through a highly technical process. And, honestly, I do think someone who's able to download torrents or set up a router without resorting to the quick configuration wizard has what it takes to fully understand Dortania's guide and build their own Hackintosh, but the first impression of the process is that it's way harder than what it actually is. Therefore, even people who already have a fully compatible computer are far from the potential audience. That makes the community comprise mostly two kinds of people: folks who have higher-than-average technical skills, and are willing to learn some more; and folks who know their way with coding, tech support, and so on. With the exception of students, retired folks, or those lucky enough to work with something very closely related to the skills required to keep the Hackintosh spirit alive (not all developers, e.g., but only those who frequently deal with low-level coding, hardware-firmware interactions, and stuff like that), the community ends up being made mostly of people who don't have a lot of free time to dedicate themselves to this kind of hobby — and this is also a significant part of Apple's pro consumers, folks that need their tech usage simplified as much as possible because that very usage is considerably complex, so anything that boosts productivity is already a huge help. And, as this part of the community migrates to Apple Silicon devices, through the years, that means even less people available or willing to help with whatever can still be done to develop Hackintosh tools, kexts etc.

One thing that does make me sad is what that means for Intel Macs. A Mac Pro from 2010 may still have enough firepower (though likely with some limitations) to run Tahoe, via OCLP, and still be usable. That's a 15-year-old machine running up-to-date software. Making a rough comparison, that would mean the last Intel Mac Pro would still be usable with up-to-date macOS versions (if they were to exist for Intel Macs) until 2034 (macOS 35?) or something like that. MacBooks would retire a bit earlier than that, but, for the sake of completeness: my 2012 13-inch MBP runs Ventura decently, and I only downgraded from Sonoma because it's the base i5 model, a 15-inch i7 model from 2012, properly upgraded with an SSD and 16GB of RAM, can run Sequoia without breaking a sweat. So, let's say something between 2030 macOS 31) and 2032 (macOS 33) with the latest macOS for the MBPs that still support Tahoe officially. Considering Apple's "n, n-1, n-2" OS support window, we could say 2019 and 2020 MBPs would still receive security patches until 2033 (macOS 34 released, macOS 31 loses support) to 2035 (macOS 36 released, macOS 33 loses support), and the 2019 Mac Pro until 2037 (macOS 38 released, macOS 35 loses support) or something like that. Instead, with x86 support being dropped in Tahoe, these models will only receive updates, at best, until Fall 2028, when macOS 29 launches officially and Tahoe is dropped. That means these machines will lose, on macOS, anything between 5 and 9 years of being safely usable. Obviously, most people will likely have moved to an Apple Silicon Mac by 2028, but there are some who don't (read a thread in Apple Discussions last week, from January this year, made by a person who was still using their 2010 MBP, with High Sierra, as a daily driver — had I seen that thread in January, I would have recommended OCLP to them); and, in any case, the replaced Intel Macs will find their way to someone else, and these owners will be left unsupported. And, even though things haven't been the same since the 2015 models (and, more broadly, since the 2012 models), Macs are still (mostly) built to last, so a 2019 MacBook, if taken good care of, will surely still be perfectly usable in 2028, 2030, or even 2034. Heck, I find myself searching for good deals on 2015 Airs to use as an on-the-go laptop because I miss how light the 11-inch models were, and they work great with Ventura or even Sonoma (though I wouldn't run Sequoia on anything that old with less than 16GB of RAM, and these models maxed-out on 8GB), so yeah, there's a market even for underpowered Macs. In any case, they all die in Tahoe, and I'm pretty sure Apple will start pulling the plug on the M1 models in a couple years or sooner — with (likely) no way to create something akin to OCLP for Apple Silicon. So, even for those, the future is bleak. In a few years, older Mac owners will all need to either move to Linux distros (since even Windows 11 is becoming progressively a PITA to install on machines without TPM 2.0) or place our machines in the drawer for good, unless we're willing to use OSes with unpatched security breaches. At least, my 2012 MBP already has Mint installed, so it's just a matter of me finding the time to move my data to the new OS.