About time. Laptops with 8th-gen Intel processors have been out for over eight months already.
Apple's size and the fact they are using the butterfly type keyboard throughout their laptop lines, means that inertia in deciding to make a change and then implementing it throughout their manufacturing chain is a fraught and time consuming process.
I also spend a lot of time working on my laptop outdoors though, and every time I get something under a key I hold my breath a little as I shake my laptop upside down, hoping that this isn't the time that it finally fails permanently and I have to send the whole machine back to Apple to replace a single key.