The wedge M1 was the very last Mac I was interested in spending money on. I half-expected they'd wow us for the launch of the Mx line, and have the MBP's take on the tapered design as well, but the era of subverting expectations was just getting started. Once they eliminated the last of what made that an elegant, inspired design and turned it into a plain utilitarian uninteresting featureless flat slab like the MBP, everything I liked about Apples product design lay firmly in the past. I don't know if there was a generational changeover and there's a skeleton crew of a couple interns designing the new line, or if the new kids don't know how to model complex lofts yet, or if some bean counter has to get fired to spend the money it takes for their design work to return to its high standard a decade ago, but man what a tumble they have decided to take.