MacBook hardware has been flaky for the past few years with overheating problems, crap keyboards, etc. I think this is a double-edged sword with Apple thinking they are faultless and can do no wrong.
No end-user gives a sh*t what chip is inside really if it performs properly, no one is gaming on them. People don't use MacBooks to be cutting edge, they use them with the expectation - like the iPhones, which I am now a convert to - that
they will just work, but that is more frequently now not the case. Enterprise specifically look for this reliability and end-user ease of use as well as the general security you get, this is why the Macs are more popular now.
I work on a 2018 i7 MacBook Pro provided by my employer which I am forced to use as they have a Mac only policy from the IT overlords. 16GB ram, 560X graphics, etc so not under-specced in any sense. Its glitchy, the OS spinning balls me all the time, window management is flaky (the thing MS Windows nails, natch) and I have to kill apps more often than I ever do on Windows machine I leave running 24x7. Not a shining beacon of an experience if you ask me, I honestly would rather have my i7 Dell Latitude back.
Can't help but think running alternate OS on macos is heading towards a dead end and single binary for x86 and arm sounds nuts and will either be massive or x86 will get shafted on performance. They totally glossed over VM performance, Docker on mac is slow as a snail already.
Intel really are not doing well lately, though