Not having to deal with an entire custom laptop (i.e. getting a lot of standard peripherals for "free" after only getting USB to work) also helps a whole lot, and note the article specifically talks about a desktop mac.
That toot is about upstream Linux 6.2, not Asahi Linux. If you run Asahi Linux (as in the blog post) you get decent (but not complete) legwork-free hardware support. Detailed breakdown here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
Not having to deal with an entire custom laptop (i.e. getting a lot of standard peripherals for "free" after only getting USB to work) also helps a whole lot, and note the article specifically talks about a desktop mac.