I come from the development background and the number one use case of containers on macOS is development enviroments, as on Windows too. For this use case, file system IO has always been bottleneck, not CPU. I do not know if there is some silver bullet in the horizon that could make this faster.
I am personally slowly moving back to Docker after having used limactl for a long time. It's just a pain in the ass.
A Linux laptop is better for all intents and purposes, except the shitty battery life...
EDIT: Looks like this was indeed just added in the last couple of weeks https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/c18ae239b69a47db77436...