Well, and the other thing is, and I can't speak for everyone else here. However, I consider myself an old breed of computer user who actually knows how to use a computer on a technical level and likes control over hardware, and software (if the need arises ) I, as others *some* others here are old enough to have been around when Apple first got started and lived through their different stages as a company. through the Apple xx series, 68K Macs, and all the way through today for the M Series Macs. My favorite trait of an intel Mac has been you can typically treat them as a PC and run any OS you want natively on them, with the added bonus of macOS. Because of this, I've developed interests and things I like to do with the computer where switching to an M Series machine would take away from because of the platform change. I would still have the Apple experience, and since I use that most of the time, I wouldn't have issues on a day to day basis. It's more the backward compatibility aspects and third party compatibility that would suffer by changing, and getting a new mac. I have an iMac 17,1 currently which gives me native support from El Capitan through Monterey, and then at least Vetura, and Sonoma through Open core. So, keeping with an Apple solution for running old software, would be to keep a copy of Mojave around, if that's not good enough, then I'd have Windows and Linux as options as third party on the same physical hardware. So just keep in mind, these are all the different areas I look at and consider when moving forward with what computer to get next, or what choices to make with this one I already have.
