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Same. In comparison, my last job I joined right when the last of the Intel Macs were going away, so my work machine was a fully loaded 16” i9 MBP. Aside from being enormous, and having the battery life of a gaming laptop, it would get absurdly hot unless I disabled Turbo. While the heat wasn’t a physical problem when docked, it would spin the fans up, and sometimes I don’t want headphones on.

I don’t know who thought shoving an i9 into a laptop designed to be sleek and quiet was a good idea, but they were mistaken.

Oh, also, my base (8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) M1 Air destroyed the i9 in actual workloads.

Me neither. I've rarely felt my M1/M2 laptops getting hot. On the other hand, Windows laptops like my Intel i7 XPS would get hot just from booting.

> with a typical software engineer workload.

So yours are probably MBPros not Airs. Those have a fan.