By the way, does anyone have info / advice on whether to stay away from the very first release of brand new hardware from a buggy point of view? Or manufacturing kinks still being worked out?
I'm more concerned about how long it will take for most apps to have full support for both macOS Catalina and Apple Silicon. When the 2012 retina MacBooks came out, quite a few apps were awkwardly pixelated for a long, long time.