I will say this, I love my M5 Air and it doesn't have An Apple Account. Like, at all. Nor did my last M2. Apple allows me more desktop privacy than Ms or Google will, and I don't have to gut the OS. I'm not motivated to because they make the horsepower available to me.

Every other machine is running some debian/Ubuntu variant today, principally. I got tired of the cat-and-mouse and all of the uosells under the hood of MS, and I just can't trust Google in this era.