Actually, I do agree with you with some of those observations. Apple's been trying to fix their terrible T2 issue and I suspect some of the problems lately have been them trying to prevent the T2 reboot crash, while ruining other parts of the experience in the process as a necessary compromise. It may get worse (or better) as they move to all-Arm architecture.

I also am sick of the touch bar now - after 2 years living with it. I have to press it twice to actually pause my media, because it's an LCD screen and it has to auto turn off to prevent burn-in. That's a regression from the old hard media button in the Fn row which was both instant and far easier to press. At least we got 'Esc' back.

But man, their trackpad...nothing beats it. Still.

> it's an LCD screen

OLED.

I hear OLED can be just as bad if not worse. So same diff.

Much worse. Just explaining why that would be a problem.

Mine starts spinning up the fan (theres kind of a pattern as to when), heating up the entire computer. The computer previously had been fine.

I usually have to restart and reset the "SMC" to stop the fan from nuking the computer.

I can let the computer drop to 5% battery life and the fan will turn off and the computer will cool down. Which is the opposite of what you want if it was actually overheating.

Counterpoint, I also have the 16 inch 2020 MBP as my first Mac work laptop and absolutely love it. No issues, it works perfectly, and I’m 2x as productive on it as I was on my previous Ubuntu setup.