If people are primarily invested in Windows and gaming there is no reason to look at these computers. People can get pretty much what they want on the PC side and they will live their lives not knowing any different. I always find it mildly humorous that PC people continuously keep engaging the Mac community and brigading why their PC is better suited for their task of choice, be it gaming or something else.
As I've said before the potential is certainly there and the M1 Pro / Max can battle it out with the best from AMD and Intel as well as graphic cards like the AMD Radeon 6800M or nVDIA 3060 / 3080 mobile. It's a great SoC that delivers amazing performance per watt. The problem right now is the lack of optimisation for Apple Silicon. Benchmarks that started out as smartphone software on iOS is very well optimised for Apple Silicon thanks to iPhone and iPad. I feel like GFXBench 5 proves that much.
Baldur's Gate 3 from Larian Studios also shows great performance. Hopefully other developers will follow suit seeing as the absolute base line GPU performance on macOS going forward is the 7-core GPU found in the fanless MacBook Air.
The screen with ProMotion gives you variable refresh rates from 24 to 120Hz. Apple colour calibrate every screen from the factory and the LUT is stored on a chip in the computer for that specific screen. You will not find a better laptop screen, it is simply the best for displaying content the way it was meant to look. The Δe colour difference out of the box is unmatched. It has a sustained brightness of 1,000 nits and 1,600 nits peak when displaying HDR content.
You look at the screen every time you turn the device on, so it should get a bit more credit than saying you can get screen with bad colour science that outputs 24Hz more.
With regards to AnandTech and Andrei I believe they are doing the right thing compiling for the architecture they are testing. It gives the best bare metal results. Software will follow, just like when Apple transitioned from PPC to x86.
At least it's better than testing functionality through a third party application that is built-in, natively, in the OS like PDF export and file compression or applications that clearly are half-baked for macOS.
Every serious Mac developer who have updated their applications for Apple Silicon have shown great performance increases compared to the equivalent Intel based Macs, be it Apple's own Final Cut Pro, compiling with Xcode, Blackmagic Design with DaVinci Resolve, Serif with their Affinity Studio (a replacement for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop / RAW photo editing), Pixelmator Pro (Photoshop), Capture One (RAW photo editing), WebStorm/PHPStorm (PHP IDE) and more than I care to mention.