But the real question is whether you ever saw the beach ball when doing these compiles on Intel processors? It is not that the M-series chips can never trigger

But the real question is whether you ever saw the beach ball when doing these compiles on Intel processors? It is not that the M-series chips can never trigger a beachball but that there are significantly fewer scenarios where that happens to the point that many users never find themselves in those scenarios. You see their enthusiasm as fanboyism and they could see you as being grumpy, but the you are just both seeing different parts of a distribution curve.