Apple likes to stage manage rather than fact manage its lineup. $1000 for a TB of storage. Which is great for lifestyle consumers, very predictable upgrade cadence, until that is a significant change happens, then last year's very expensive item becomes obsolete.
Now they have promised to make AI a focus, but AI requires RAM. If their AI is useful and comprehensive, which it should be, it will make computers that can't run AI well look like dumb terminals, considering how it can securely contextualize the user's entire information space and relate it to the world. You can do neat things with small models that run in 2GB, but more RAM will be needed to not have their AI look foolish. If the AI is running all the time, a real sidekick, 8GB is not enough. All these shortsighted low memory, profit centre upgrade computers will drop in value like the Intel - Apple silicon days.