M1 and M2 are far from obsolete\n\n But if you're running an Intel Mac, that's a whole other consideration. There, you'll see a huge performance boost and you'll find everything runs faster and smoother.
For the time being, some crucial tools either won't run on new Macs or won't run properly. These include Docker, Android Studio, and Haskell. The list of tools that will run on Rosetta 2 but aren't optimized for the M1 is much more extensive and includes Atom, RStudio, PHPStorm, R, Flutter, VSCode, Golang, .