Thank you so much Don! Means so much coming from you!
Hehe, please show your wife 
Yes - I love my iPad. I got it when I started sketching this deck last fall and have been so happy with it. Procreate is such an intuitive and powerful tool.
I am excited to see what Adobe will do - Photoshop is such a massive tool - and making it good to use is quite a challenge...
Let me ask you, on the subject of that iPad Pro (and if we get too far off-topic, I'll split this off to a new topic) - how is it in terms of things like file management and backing up of data?
Here's what I currently do with my setup at home. I have a MacBook Pro 13", mid-2014, with a 256 Gb solid state drive and another 256 Gb of "internal" storage via an SD card. At home, I have an Apple TV 4K on the living room 4K TV, plus a Western Digital MyCloud drive. The MyCloud is great, though it can be a little finicky at times - it's a network drive that's Internet-accessible, so I can get my files from anywhere and on nearly any device that has Internet access. That has 8 Tb of internal storage, with another 8 Tb connected externally that's used just for copying the files on the internal drive as protection in case of drive failure. I use an iPhone XS, which works very smoothly with the other devices - the phone and computer can "screen share" with the TV, no problems, and there's a lot of cross-connectivity between the phone and computer for things like calls, texting, FaceTime, etc.
What do I do with all of that? Not a hell of a lot, really - at least not anything requiring serious "heavy lifting." I use a word processor, a spreadsheet, a slideshow program, email and web, simple photo storage and image editing (amateur-level stuff, nothing pro-grade) and I stream/download a lot from iTunes. The most intensive work I tend to do with it is really about pushing data around between the devices and the MyCloud+external drives. For backups of the computer, I use two drives - one is an old WD MyBook connected to my AirPort Extreme router, the other is a shirt-pocket sized 1 Tb Seagate with USB 3, so I can back up at home and on the go. The phone gets backed up to the MacBook Pro.
What I was trying to determine was, when the time comes that I need to replace the MacBook Pro (probably four year or so down the road, longer if I'm lucky), would an iPad Pro be an adequate substitute? How would I download movies/TV/music from iTunes and back them up to the MyCloud drive? Would I find that it just didn't cover enough bases to be a suitable replacement for my needs, or would I be thrilled that I could move off a laptop and onto a tablet without missing anything? (And then there's the whole "usable lifespan" thing - I'm seeing that computers tend to have a much longer timeframe wherein they remain functional and are capable of being updated, while tablets max out after a few years, becoming more sluggish/less capable of running the latest version of their OS until finally they reach a point where they're no longer upgradeable. (I still have a FIRST-GEN iPad, with WiFI/cellular and 64 Gb. It runs, but not terribly well, and I haven't been able to update the OS for years!)
Granted, I'm asking a question about something that likely won't happen for a few years down the road yet (who knows what hardware/software changes will occur between now and then), but were I to make the switch today, I'm curious if I'd be happy with it or if I'd feel like I was somehow getting shortchanged.
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