I'm glad the AMD GPU option still exists, I don't have great experience with NVIDIA on Linux. The rest of the upgrades, like the new top cover and keyboard, are very welcome
It's so weird to hear people who have problems with NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, because for me it's always been the opposite. I have had problems with AMD but never with NVIDIA.
The problem is not NVIDIA GPU, it is laptops that have iGPU (amd or intel) and Nvidia dgpu. In such a configuration the experience is really really bad in both X11 and wayland.