For people who think 10-20% increase in speed is "not a lot" or "not worth the money lol", here's a point of view to consider:
I do creative work for a living and I spend hours and hours in Adobe Illustrator, and some time in After Effects, Photoshop, etc.
Almost all of benchmarks we see are things like export times, rendering times, how long to perform one very complex task, how can it handle multiple streams of Resolution X in Codec Y...
But something that people who don't do this kind of work don't experience and don't see in the benchmarks is how a "10-20% increase" can meaningfully impact the nuts and bolts of the 'creative' part of this kind of work.
If you're in a large Illustrator file with a f-load of objects and paths and masks and effects, these "relatively small" increases in speed can actually make a noticeable difference in how responsive Illustrator is when you're dragging an object, selecting multiple objects, modifying multiple points, turning on and off layer visibility, even just drawing a line...
The more instantaneous these things happen, the more free you are to work "at the speed of your mind and hands" and not get bottlenecked by the computer computing something –even if it's a fraction of a second– a hundred times in five minutes.
When you account for this in addition to the minutes here and there that you save on other "computer stuff" that an M2 MBP will do faster than an M1 MBP, it's very clear that you can get way more than $3000 in value. 💹
(Plus, of course, the resale value on these machines is so good, so if you sell your old machine you're effectively only paying a fraction of the sticker price.)
