No, they won't, especially in a market spoiled by lower prices and huge sales like USA. Nobody in USA in their sane mind would buy 15 inch MBA with 8/256 combo for 2000 us dollars.Even if Apple charges $2000 for 8GB/256GB people would still buy in droves.
With that out of the way, I would not buy base config regardless since my 1TB drive on M1 MacBook Pro 13” is already running dangerously low and Have to hook an external drive all the time.
Let alone in Europe where it would then cost somewhere around 2300 euros which is close to 16 inch M2 Pro.
Forget about it.