Nothing to be confused about. Even if the M2 entry-level is launched this week, it will simply be a replacement for the M1 with minor incremental performance that would be unlikely to make existing M1 owners want to upgrade.
Based on the release history there was a year between M1 and M1 Pro/Max, so we would logically expect the same for the M2, i.e. no earlier than March 2023. That is hardly "around the corner".
You don't require much research to determine that M1 Pro/Max will be considerably more capable than M2 for most workloads, except those that are single-threaded and will benefit from slightly faster CPU cores.
Intel did exactly the same thing between their Core and Xeon product lines, and I don't think anyone in the market for these machines was confused by their positioning in their market segments.