M1 MBA was great. The downsides were that if something only works on intel or nvidia (Solana, simdjzon, CUDA) you can't run it, and 16GB is not enough RAM to run Google Chrome.

I've been happier with the M1 Max MBP which has enough RAM to run Google Chrome. For the upcoming M2, maybe 24GB of RAM will be enough to run Google Chrome. Hard to say.