Personally, I feel the $200 certificate is way too little. The DTK was completely useless to me. My app is based on third party libraries that were not available for Apple Silicon, and are only now being converted, because they didn’t pay for a DTK so they couldn’t start their conversion until after the release. I waited patiently, and I even tried to reinvent some stuff, but it was futile. For small private developers, like myself, that saw this as an opportunity that never came to fruition, if was just a disappoint and a waste of money.
aside from being able to test is apps would run okay under Rosetta 2, it proved to a lesson to not spend money on such things, because unless I spend even more money on an M1 Mac, I will be out the cost of the DTK, with no chance of even recouping the portion of the $200.
They should just add the systems to the list of supported platforms and let us keep them, or offer a bigger incentive to buy a new M1 Mac than $200... we know the better chips will be released very soon and be much more appropriate for development purposes.