I don't really need a laptop at the moment. If I did I'd buy an M2 MBA in a heartbeat.

I'm really pleased to see the return of the MBA. From 2011 it was really the perfect laptop with a good compromise of size, performance and cost. But it languished for years just needing a Retina display upgrade and then it got killed by the awful 12" Macbook in Johnny Ive's crusade for thinness at all cost (which also brought us the terrible butterfly keyboard to save 0.5mm). But Johnny Ive is gone (yay!).

The only issue I've seen people talk about is thermal throttling under high loads. Given that the RAM is shared with the GPU then 8GB in the base model seems low. I think I also read there's a difference in the SSD between the base model and the upgraded model?