or VMs. they should be getting way better out of that.

Yes, but I stopped caring about electron apps some time ago. You can't just drop or ignore useful software to satisfy Apple marketing. Just like you can't just ignore Chrome for Safari to satisfy the autonomy claims, because Chrome is much more useful and better at quite a bit of things.

I went the way of only Apple and Apple optimized software for quite a while but I just can't be bothered anymore, considering the price of the hardware and nowadays the price of subscription software.

And this is exactly my argument I you use the hardware in a very specific way, you get there but it is very limiting, annoying and inacceptable considering the pricing.

It's like saying that a small city car gets more gas mileage when what one needs is actually a capable truck. It's not strictly wrong but also not very helpful.

I think the Apple Silicon laptops are very nice if you can work within the limitations, but the moment you start pushing on those you realize they are not really worth the money. Just like the new iPad Pro they released; completely awesome hardware but how many people can actually work within the limitations of iPad OS to make the price not look like a complete ripoff. Very few I would argue.