I agree with this sentiment. If anyone realizes that all they are mostly doing is using, let's say, a browser, IDE and terminal for most tasks and some tooling

I agree with this sentiment. If anyone realizes that all they are mostly doing is using, let's say, a browser, IDE and terminal for most tasks and some tooling that can be used anywhere, the value proposition for macOS (or Windows for that matter) is much lower. My last Mac I stopped using in ~2016 because I made that realization myself. Even if my hardware is not to the standard of Apple's hardware, the only thing it should do is not fail randomly on work-critical devices. That doesn't happen at all to me - Ubuntu on the ThinkPads I use work great.