All depends on your disk tolerance. Several have mentioned first gen with signifigant new tech can be brittle.
I bought a new 16" MBP in January; it's FAST, does a much better job with heat dissipation than the previous version, and finally has a decent keyboard again.
It absolutely was real. Countless software engineers, including myself, worked our tails off updating code to avoid the worst of the issues. It worked. I think it's one of software's great success stories (of course after an initial lack of planning).
https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/