Good question. It completely untethers me from my desk. The battery life is so good I can get through an entire work day without worrying about power at any point. This frees me up to leave (e.g. for a meeting, to work in the park or just on a couch, or simply being frazzled and in a hurry) without even considering a power brick or when I'll be able to plug in again.

To have that freedom in a 3 lb laptop with virtually no performance compromises is incredible.

I would take an M1 MacBook Pro over my intel MacBook Pro in a heart beat. It’s a heating battery dying piece of shit to put it lightly

ARM replacing X86 as the desktop computing processor of choice.

A revolution doesn't have to benefit you. This benefits Apple financially, any benefits you receive are secondary.