Well, no ? That's litterally saying "trust the synthetic process, we don't care about real world usage" ?? I don't care if it works better theorically, if it feels bad in everyday usage it IS bad

Well, grab an Apple from the 80s and try running a modern app on it and see whether the M3 performs better or worse.

Or, if the point is that software became very bloated, then sure but they also do a lot more nowadays so then you’re really just comparing apples with oranges.