Every single performance aspect of the MBP is better: display, audio, ports, memory bandwidth, available RAM, external display support, etc. Heck, just compare the 100% different spec lists.a dongle and an external monitor can nullify these pretty big differences.
I do my entire engineering job on an m2 mba, I'll probably never return to the pro line. More money for not that much improvement. I'm not doing large local renders, and when doing intensive work that takes a few minutes of cpu I wouldn't really care or notice if it was 20% faster.