Yeah man. I mean I had planned to upgrade my 2016 MBP (thanks touchbar flicker arriving 1 year after the topcase replacement) to the M2 MBA, but once I was looking at $1400 for the machine, I was debating whether or not I should just keep the MBP in clamshell and slowly transfer over everything to my gaming desktop and use the MBP as just my mobile workstation.People who starts these discussion wants cheaper Macs.
So instead of framing it as the base model needs better hardware. They should just be honest and say they think a Mac with more SSD space and RAM is too expensive.
Apple is free to charge whatever they want, people are free to complain and people are free to complain about the complaining.