I have the feeling a lot of people take Macs because the other option is a locked down Windows, and Linux is not offered.
The hardware for a Linux laptop right now is not great. Especially for an arm64 machine. Even if the hardware is good the chassis and everything else is typically plastic and shitty.
This. I ran Linux at work until last year, when it was finally disallowed. I went with locked-down Mac over locked-down Windows.