while far from perfect, after watching all three videos, nothing stood out as egregious. Yep... definitely not perfect and still room for improvement. But this headline feels pretty sensational when backed up with the 3 videos (poorly) linked.
Consider a used thinkpad. I recently picked up a pre-owned Thinkpad X1 gen 6 for 600. 16G RAM and modern enough CPU. Its wonderful and works well with Fedora.