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Are the thermals that bad? My understanding is that they had a bad incident with a 6-core MBP in 2018, but they managed to fix it.

It’s not going to melt down. The whole line just falls way short of benchmarks for the chips. Linus Tech Tips did a good video on it.

Uhhh, I don't think you've seen LTTs recent video review of it - they came away quite impressed at its performance and thermals:

You've probably only seen an old video about the old models of the Macbook Pro. ;)