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I've been using Macs (both desktop and laptops) since I have memory. I've had the M1 since launch day, and I use it all day, both for work and personal use.

Why this never happened to me? Why I don't know anyone which had this problem? Why nobody is complaining as it happened with the previous gen keyboards?

I think we might be missing something in this analysis. I don't think Apple engineers are idiots.

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Most people don't unplug their Mac Mini in the middle of working, and most users who do lose data after that happens would just think it's normal and not realize there is an underlying problem and modern OSes aren't supposed to do that.

I've seen APFS filesystems eat themselves in production (and had to do data recovery), twice. Apple don't have a perfect data integrity track record.

On laptop, you would get data loss / corruption on sudden power loss. This is rare. With "flush to storage device's RAM", even a kernel panic would not lose data if you let the storage device flush to flash without power loss.

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