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MicroCenter - $999 - Apple MacBook Air - Space Gray; M1 Chip; 16GB RAM; 256GB SSD; 7-core GPU
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70GB is taken up by OS and swap. A couple VM's take up an extra 100GB. A couple 4K movies takes up 20-50GB a piece. Forget about downloading a season of a TV series. I have a few tech courses download which take up another 30-40GB. None of these are outrageous things only top of the line specced machines should be able to do. The only limiting factor for these is SSD. RAM will become an issue in 2 years for people who buy 8GB RAM laptops today.
This isn't 2014 where TV's and monitors are 1080p. Also, solid state prices are pennies on the dollar. It made sense to use less storage when SSD's were introduced because they were expensive. In 2012, Apple used a 500GB HDD in the MBP. Today's SSD prices are equivalent to HDD prices of 2012. What really is outrageous is the fact that the price difference between a high-end 256GB SSD and a 512GB of the same model is about $15, but Apple wants consumers to pay $200.
We get it, your needs could be met with a Chromebook or an old Lenovo with linux and libreoffice and VScode. However, Apple is contributing to harming the environment by selling baseline laptops which are on the edge of obsolescence.
Even VMware is almost done with Fusion for Apple silicon. Stay in the loop, pal.