Those are good points; I will say in particular the speakers on my MBP are amazing and have provided the music for lots of occasions, and video calls are great. But my partner has an M1 Air and they're totally fine to me. Maybe if you're sensitive you should beware, but then you should beware of all non-MBP laptop speakers.
I use the incredible SwitchResX [0] so you can get the res and refresh rate you want. I wear contacts so I tend to use screens at native resolution, and I'd probably either have the Air at native or one tick down. Native on the 14" is too small even for me (this is less font size and more low-contrast UIs though), but I had my 2018 MBP 16" at native and it was pretty good, so maybe what I'm complaining about doesn't apply to that size.
Black levels are good, but I suspect the blooming is responsible for the difference between dark on light and light on dark. If I were in video or photography this might be a good tradeoff, but for Vim it's not ideal--I'd prefer an IPS.
I'll also say my MBP was $3,700, so jumping down to the M2 Air (24GB, 2TB) is a $1,200 savings. There's a lot you can do with configurations, but higher end MBPs are just in their own class. I justify it by saying "well of course I would spend $5/day to use a computer, which is about 2 years, and if I stretch it out to 3 it's a pretty good upgrade cycle (plus resale maybe).
I use the incredible SwitchResX [0] so you can get the res and refresh rate you want. I wear contacts so I tend to use screens at native resolution, and I'd probably either have the Air at native or one tick down. Native on the 14" is too small even for me (this is less font size and more low-contrast UIs though), but I had my 2018 MBP 16" at native and it was pretty good, so maybe what I'm complaining about doesn't apply to that size.
Black levels are good, but I suspect the blooming is responsible for the difference between dark on light and light on dark. If I were in video or photography this might be a good tradeoff, but for Vim it's not ideal--I'd prefer an IPS.
I'll also say my MBP was $3,700, so jumping down to the M2 Air (24GB, 2TB) is a $1,200 savings. There's a lot you can do with configurations, but higher end MBPs are just in their own class. I justify it by saying "well of course I would spend $5/day to use a computer, which is about 2 years, and if I stretch it out to 3 it's a pretty good upgrade cycle (plus resale maybe).
[0]: https://www.madrau.com/