have you been able to do all your work on your Mac albeit with some workarounds or did you have to resort to a backup x64.
I feel like most of these issues will be resolved with another year, but I have to choose in a few months.
This all depends on the software you use everyday for work. If the software you require does not run on the laptop or is so unstable that it prevents you from doing your work then skip it.
What the M1 early adopters didn't tell you is that basic software like Java, Docker and Node required hacks and tons of workarounds before it was made stable. Some have strangely went 'all in' and encountered tons of issues which have costed them weeks or months to get started. Even after they finished setting up everything, the occasional issues still slow them down despite the machine being faster than everything on the market.
If an urgent issue was to arise and you are still unable to do your job because the software on your machine doesn't work or isn't mature, or occasionally crashes or reboots itself (even worse becomes bricked) then it is not worth the risk.
Personally, I moved most of my toys to VMs elsewhere a few years ago and everything left with just interia.
As other posters mentioned python libraries are a problem, but then python on Mac is a circus anyway!
Even with the current shortcomings of an M1 reality there's no way in hell I'd trade out my M1.