I think such departments were never a target for this iteration of hardware. That’ll be whenever a Mac Pro model comes out or similar.

IT departments do often offer a small/light and a non-travel-optimized model but I imagine many companies are waiting until they can have a common architecture on new systems and any software teething pains are worked out (which seems to be happening but probably not quite there yet).

Do IT department ever rush? I think their ambition is to be slow, but steady. If you don’t want to change course often, you can’t react immediately to every thing that happens.

When they have to. Like when everyone went remote a year ago. But, to put it mildly, providing people with access to the newest Apple laptop does not constitute an emergency.