People naively rushing to the website expecting some kind of Black Friday deal

The thing I keep seeing left out is that 8GB of RAM is also shared with the GPU, which will eat into it tremendously

I have a feeling the 8GB of RAM is their new approach to planned obsolescence. Almost every used device you see for sale right now has 256GB and 8GB of RAM. So the sales figures on those were absolutely insane.

The native Apple silicon has gotten so good that you could use it for years to come, but the 8GB of RAM will be what makes your machine slow/unusable.

This is just my theory though. 8GB of RAM will force you to upgrade sooner