Yep. In MY day to day, as a backend / front-end / devops guy, it isn't worth the money to buy anything better than what I have IMO. All I do is vim, run stuff

Yep. In MY day to day, as a backend / front-end / devops guy, it isn't worth the money to buy anything better than what I have IMO. All I do is vim, run stuff in cloud machines through ansible (SSH), and a browser. My last MacBook Air with an i7 was better than what I have but not $2k better.