I think it depends on your usecase. Check if you will actually benefit from pro/max. I'm willing to bet regular M1 is fine for the majority of people.

I got M1 air 16gb around 3 month ago and it works great, although it's not my only laptop. I was choosing between air M1 16 gb and 14" M1 pro 32 gb, and the price difference for additional ram, extra ports and screen size didn't make sense to me.