Yeah, I was actually surprised to learn there was a reason other than "Apple wants you to buy a new Macbook or overspec your current one". It's annoying, but at least there's a plausible reason to why they do it.
do storage next.
A lot has changed.
God forbid someone steps on it too, I think I might still have some scars on my feet.
It's true for any laptops that can be reasonably described as having a "SoC" and not CPU, anyway.
(I guess you could be extremely pedantic and try to argue that T2 counted as SoC? But clearly not what I meant.)