Never use siri, rarely use spotlight beyond app file names completion to launch. On my fourth or fifth Macbook pro over 15 years having been a thinkpad person before that. I'm not interested in an ai assistant, it's an overclocked terminal to SSH onto bigger boxes and a word processor. It runs emacs plenty fast.
…well, if it runs. Because all these predictive-auto-whatever features also break things: Eg., I have a bug in Apple Mail [1], which basically breaks "entering text into a computer using a keyboard" – a problem I would have thought was solved some 70+ years ago, but alas, here we are…
It is a work laptop. My own are Thinkpads. I prefer the Thinkpads for most things.
Cons of the MacBook:
Terrible selection of ports, terrible trackpad (no middle click as standard, right click is unreliable and needs a clumsy gesture which fails more often than it works), AWFUL keyboard, zero repairability or upgradability.
I would not wish to spend my own money on one of these things.
I am not saying you are wrong. I am merely saying what you value is not universal.
For my current work project, I use a Mac Mini mostly to ssh into various boxes running Linux, both x86 and arm. The docs and comms are on the Mac though.
Funny enough, the mini stays at 10 W (it's a M2) while the x86 box under my desk idles at 20 W with no monitor connected...
