It gets worse—if you are charging the battery, you can immediately see the left or right side Thunderbolt ports get a lot hotter, fast. Probably because piping 96W through those ports heats things up a bit.
The thermal performance on the 2019 16" MacBook Pro is not wonderful.
How is that acceptable for a "pro" machine? I would expect that crap in a $100 Chromebook, not in a machine that starts at $1000+ just for the base model.
The thermal performance on the 2019 16" MacBook Pro is not wonderful.