It all boils down to your specific use cases....and budget

there is no in between unless you can afford having both android/ios tablet and windows

i have tried those 3 ways and at the end of it i choose 2 of 3 which is MacOS (macbook pro) for heavy work and iPad for light sketch task and presentation (i can skip ipad entirely)

budget wise is not my issue so does data plan.

In my case if i ever wanted to go for windows laptop/tablet i would pick ROG Flow Z13 (2025). Nowadays modern high end windows laptop has way better performance and battery life than your surface pro 5 (i once own pro 4 and 5)