Ehh. A lot of people play games. I can make the fans spin heavy on my m3 pro. Especially when most games on mac today mean running through a translation layer and weren't multithreaded to begin with. Throttling is a nonstarter for games. Might be ok for compiling but for gaming the lag induced by throttling makes it entirely unplayable.

Were you anticipating people playing (probably AAA) games on a budget Macbook?

These aren’t modern AAA games that spool fans. Well they were 10 years ago when they came out I guess.