i mean, if the machine does the job you purchased it for, is it really outdated? Unless the job it is doing is to be the best and latest, as a status symbol...
Yeah, I still have an M1 Mini and it does everything I ask of it pretty handily. The most intense work being rendering edited photos out of Lightroom while watching videos and web browsing around the same time.
Oh I'm super happy with it - it has handled everything I've thrown at it and then some and I'm not planning on upgrading anytime soon. But I feel like with the M2 Pro's having such a short shelf life, what that means for long term support.
Given Apple’s history and California law, I wouldn’t worry that your M2 will have a short lifespan.
I doubt it means anything. The 3rd gen iPad was superseded within 6 months, but it still had 7.5 years of support.