Apple hardware is more than up to the task (so long as you spec enough ram)
The issue is the software. There is no natively supported professional 3d CAD software. Everything has to be run through parallels which ads so much overhead that you might as well be using a decade old windows machine
I must have hurt someone’s feelings
Depends on the programs your using.
These new macbook seem to be pretty good but in my line of work (professional 3d CAD), if you handed me a top of the range macbook I’d use it to spec up a useful laptop with said intel or amd hardware, wait for it to be delivered, configure it to my desires and probably still come out ahead in my workload by the end of the month.
I don’t disagree but nevertheless that is the situation.
Its like buying a Alfa Romeo SUV for tackling a 4x4 trail. It can probably do it but it’s going to cost you compared to a Land Cruiser that will do it quicker, faster, cheaper, and more comfortably.