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Lowkey not worth, you can get much better performance laptops for the same price
A QEMU VM running ARM would probably be a better experience for testing cross compiled code, than a reverse engineered distro on unsupported hardware.
Yeah, it's an impressive amount of work and more options is always a good thing, but there's really no reason to go out of your way to buy a new MBP just to run Linux. Though I wonder what the used M1 market is looking like these days.