There are touchscreen laptops you can touch. It was a priority for Microsoft in the Windows 8 era but Apple always kept away from it because they’ve always wanted to maximize the psychological difference between laptops, tablets, and phones because they have every expectation of selling you all three.
One thing I find a little annoying about my steam deck is that it has a touchscreen and it works right some of the time but there are plenty of games where you have an object in the screen with a skeuomorphic interface that you ought to be able to touch but you have to work it with the game controller buttons. Back in the day with the PS Vita almost all games could be played with game controller buttons only but any touch target that should have obviously been a touch target was a touch target.