Agreed - I picked up an MBA as a second device for a job and then switched my main laptop to an M1 Max for development, photography, music and usually all running at the same time (IntelliJ, Photo Mechanic/Capture One, Logic Pro) and the performance just isn't an issue, in fact, there are NO hardware issues at all, except maybe I could do with even more disk space.

I once inhabited a performance-driven sphere, but it turned out that there was a ceiling on what I needed. Absolutely no doubt that many people who run different workloads will still be delighted with more performance, but for many of us, Apple are looking at a massive drop in upgrade sales soon...