Duh. This is a classic case of Osbourne Effect. Who's going to buy an Intel Mac when M1 is just as good, and appears to be the direction Apple is headed? The point at while an Intel Mac goes obsolete is likely to be sooner, because at some point (probably soon) you'll encounter some app that won't run on Intel (oops we only tested it on M1), or at best it runs in some kind of emulation mode.