Imo, it depends on the OS.

I know someone is going to say otherwise but I tried (iirc) Debian, Ubuntu, and variants of Fedora (vanilla and Silverblue). None performed as well as Windows. But I only cared about power/heat/noise/thermals. I ended up swapping for MBP because I didn't like WSL but it was very good as a Windows machine.

And ofc, you are getting upgrade path, can replace things when it breaks, etc. Support on their forums is also very good, if you are able to try to fix things then a forum is better than regular support which will just tell you to send it in and wait weeks/months.

At slightly above price of FW, you can consider MBP (MBA didn't work for me either, same issue with thermals).

In my experience, the main things that let FW down are the things it can't control: OS and CPU. And I expect both to improve over time.