16 GiB is not a lot of memory these days.

Nor is 6-8h a long battery life.

This thing is gonna be made to look like it's standing still by the next-gen, if not current-gen, MacBook Pros, which will still have twice the battery life.

Let's face it: Apple has raised the bar on what a laptop should be (like they do every few years). Only the most neckbearded of FOSS developers are going to lay out that kind of scratch for a laptop whose design basically hails from three years ago; the rest of us will appreciate the hardware and software advantages the Apple ecosystem gives us.