Clearly they’re trying to cut costs to bring it closer to the new M3 Base MBP (also happens to be closer in performance too). They’re trying to upsell people to the Pro (it’s a little cheaper than the M2 Pro was).
As a sidenote this is also why the pricing for the M3 Base makes exactly 0 sense (adding the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD that should have been standard for £1700 makes it the same price as the Pro where I live).
Clearly they’re trying to cut costs to bring it closer to the new M3 Base MBP (also happens to be closer in performance too). They’re trying to upsell people to the Pro (it’s a little cheaper than the M2 Pro was).
As a sidenote this is also why the pricing for the M3 Base makes exactly 0 sense (adding the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD that should have been standard for £1700 makes it the same price as the Pro where I live).