I've had the same experience. I've had my M2 Pro (16/512) for a week now, and upgraded from a 2018 i5 with 32GB RAM. My daily workflow is having all of the following apps open on a single 43" 4K display: Mail, Reminders, Finder, Calendar, Calculator, Safari (~6 tabs), Citrix Receiver remote session to work, Messages, Settings, Zoom, and Activity Monitor (only temporary as I wanted to monitor the memory pressure my routine was creating). This created so little memory pressure you could barely see the green line on the bar graph. Yesterday I did some 1080p video editing in iMovie, and also did a Handbrake encode for a different video at the same time. Both videos were 43 minute long 1080p videos, and with both of those processes running on top of everything else I had open, the memory pressure stayed in the green (bottom 1/3 of the graph), while the CPU load rose to about 93%. No beach balls, no freezing... YMMV, but in my experience 16GB of RAM on an M2 = 32GB of RAM on an Intel i5.