>All of which will have performance loss due to x86 emulation.

Not necessarily.

https://www.redmondpie.com/single-core-geekbench-score-shows...

Cinebench R23 and Blender were ported to be native on Apple Silicon macs.

... which seems reasonable to factor in, because most of the software that I use will not be ported to ARM CPUs anytime soon.