Not exactly a joke, and, hysterical.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

All depends on your disk tolerance. Several have mentioned first gen with signifigant new tech can be brittle.

I bought a new 16" MBP in January; it's FAST, does a much better job with heat dissipation than the previous version, and finally has a decent keyboard again.

It absolutely was real. Countless software engineers, including myself, worked our tails off updating code to avoid the worst of the issues. It worked. I think it's one of software's great success stories (of course after an initial lack of planning).

Absolutely real. I, along with many others, worked our tails off updating code so systems would still perform. It worked. It was a huge success.