I do dev work that involves the Adobe creative suite so I need to run that plus a full development environment. I also need a lot of storage, because I work with video, I care a lot about the display because I am staring at it all day - but also I want to check visual artifacts. What works for you does not work for me.

I also have a M1 Macbook Air, and it’s s great laptop but far from the best programmers laptop for all use cases.