This is true, but then I've had little or no use-case for a laptop for ... nearly a decade?
Well, for computer-insensitive things I won't use a laptop except
as X11 and Vt-terminal to a big
IBM POWER10, which is *THE* computer.
Intel and AMD simply MUST die once and forever, for me it's only garbage and hate. Don't get me wrong, I have to use their shitty architecture because some software is x86-only, but I am not happy when I have to put my money on x86.
Anyway, speaking of why you don't need high computer power under laptop skin (1), when I visited the last hack meeting in Estonia, the best idea ever seen was an optic-fiber KVM in laptop shape. That's the kind of object that really makes sense as "cool thing" that you will also really enjoy use if you are the kind that needs a keyboard and a video with all the computer power (and noise made by computers cooling fans) running somewhere else, remotely.
I tried this for two days, all the computers were 800 meters far, inside a camper, while the KVM-laptop in a tend, and the optic link really thin and light and of the complementary color of the grass so that no one tripped over the cable.
For C-coders and hackers, well ... it was insanely great
(1) unless you are a traveling photographer or a Youtuber, or someone who needs to edit video in a hotel room or on the train
I mean, like
YeahRussia,
Bald And Bankrupt, or the
Satanej Setgalievna Kazanova's husband, especially when he did a video shoot in Siberia ....