The 2019 Macbook Pro has to be one of the worst macs I've ever used. It feels like a culmination of software and hardware design disasters, as a lot of comments here suggest. But for me, the biggest let down is there's all this fancy hardware: fast ssd, high core count cpu - but it isn't perceptively or objectively (in a real workload) any faster than the half decade old hardware it replaced apart from synthetic hw benchmarks.

I'm seriously looking at switching back to either a windows or linux powered machine.