That’s not how this works. The vast majority of people upgrading computers have laptops that are generations behind. The only people who upgrade laptops yearly are people who are fucking insanely crazy/tech reviewers. Every year a new set of people are in need for an upgraded computer along with people just getting into the Apple ecosystem.

Look at what happened with the iMac. They waited 900 days and people were up in arms.

Wasn’t there a rumor that Apple wanted to release M2Pro/Max in fall 2022? If that was the plan then yeah definitely makes sense if they’re “back on schedule”