I agree 100 percent. Linus was mostly right here. He simply was reserved in his opinion until he had access to actually silicon. Basically every other tech “reviewer” simply parroted with Apple’s presentation said.
I really don’t know why Jonathan Morisson felt the need to make a rebuttal video and cause all of this drama. Linus never actually said anything bad about the silicon itself. Apple presentation was very vague, “latest pc chip”, “best selling pc” in its price range? Apple appears to intentionally hid stuff, and Linus called it out. When tomorrow comes we will probably see Linus was largely correct in being guarded.
In the end of the day, I would trust someone like Linus, who is genuinely passionate about tech in general, and is staffed by intelligent people such as Anthony, than I would Jonathan who is simply passionate about Apple, and has very little knowledge on how systems actually work. I rather watch Anthony do a deep dive in how it works, power consumptions, etc, than Jonathan fire up geekbench and Final cut and say its the best thing since sliced bread. As Jonathan anything technically, he probably can’t answer, Linus and Co will.
Of course, now you've got to stay in that lane or you're a sellout and that energy that used to be with you is now against you. 
