There are so many issues with the current implimentation that I think saying "it runs" is a bit of a stretch. I'll give it to you when you have a hardware-accelerated desktop, until then "it runs" Linux as much as a toaster SOC can "run" Linux.
Sounds like you haven’t used Asahi at all. The software rendering is actually very functional and perfectly usable for programming. It’s just multimedia/gaming where it fails.
Why would you ever spend $6000 on $300 of parts to run an operating system that could be run on a regular computer?
Where’d the $6k number come from? You can get an M1 machine starting in the $700 range.