In other news, I received my new corporate laptop day before yesterday. A 16" Macbook Pro, 32GiB RAM, 1TiB storage. OS X Big Sur is a bit messy with permissions, one has to do a few things to get it to behave. The keyboard is good, the screen is excellent, and the low frequency impression from a bunch of coin-cell sized speakers (I do not call it response for I believe it to be, ahem, contoured) is just that -- impressive.
Why did I not jump the bandwagon and go M1? For starters, while I feel the 13" size is almost optimal for travel (My private laptop is a 13" MBP some years old, and it is holding up really well, best computer I've ever owned.), it is somewhat lacking for more focused work. I work a lot with the computer as-is, without external screen, and having 16" then is a real bonus.
Second, there are a few apps I depend on that have had mixed luck with Rosetta, and they're not available in native yet.
Edit: And a full score on migration must be awarded; backup old computer to external drive, umount and move cable to new computer, choose restore, answer a few questions, and wait. One reboot, and you are where you left off on the old one. But on the new computer.