It would be hard to leave Apple. I'm at least waiting to see how this shakes out, and I'm aware of the fact that the other major commercial vendors (Microsoft, Google) are far worse than Apple on most of these issues.

Linux is still too high-maintenance for me, though I could be convinced. I am watching https://frame.work/ closely and considering grabbing one just to support that effort. The big flaw is use of Intel chips which are total shit compared to even Ryzens on power/performance.

The M1 makes leaving Apple even harder. The performance is great and the power efficiency makes a laptop feel like it has some kind of zero point infinite energy device in it. You can do a full day's work on an M1 running real apps like large builds, VMs, and IDEs and still have 1/3 battery remaining, and it's faster than a top-end Intel Mac.

There is absolutely nothing comparable to the M1 in the x64 PC ecosystem. A latest-generation Ryzen would be the closest you could get, but it's hard to find good Ryzen notebooks due to Intel's strong-arming of that space.