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anecdotally two friends of mine wanted AMD but bought Intel because of availability. You may be right.

That's just because no one wants Intel at the moment.

Intel still gets paid even if the people buying their CPUs don't want them.

I could get away with using my old 2013 Macbook Pro for 90% of my computing needs. I could run the rest in the cloud. Sure I have the latest AMD and I know the headline numbers but I wouldn’t be able to tell you that consumer chips improved all that much in the past few years purely from a practical pov.

Same here, but that last 10% of computing needs can complicate things.

Try running two 4k external monitors on a Haswell MBP.

They look about the same, but a Haswell MBP13 (Late 2013) is very much less capable than an Ice Lake MBP13 (2020). Not all of that difference is attributable to the CPU I suppose, but the graphics and thermal throttling under load certainly are.

Even 2019 i9 MBP can't do that without extreme overheating and throttling, measured with pmset -g thermlog.

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