I think that only for showoff.

Those weighting value/price for the use case they are having the Pro is an overkill for most in the population. I have a good but still medium performance laptop personally as I use it for learning experimentation (and fun, which is not independent from the two former), but I did not push such for my wife. For her even the entry level Mac is an overkill. Be both recognise that. For those thinking like us the MacBook Neo was a good move from Apple.

Said that, this was before personal AI assistants. Now, for privacy reasons, I might push for a more capable laptop for her too (if I was sure I could set up a reliable config locally. I did not dig into that enough to make sure, but I'd do if it was an issue today).