Same. The only issue I have w/ my original M1 Air is that I was impatient and got the 8GB model because I could get it into my hands a month faster. But that's not something that's changed over time.
Every new release I drool over getting the new shiny but the reality is that for my personal laptop it's AOK for almost everything I do. Sometimes a bit slow and frustrating due to the RAM but again, that's on me.
I'm running Windows (ARM) virtual machine on M1 Air, and it's constantly thermally throttled. It was hitting 95 Celsius degrees sometimes. I even bought one of those cooling pads with three fans, to make up for the lack of cooling in the laptop itself, so it is now down to 65 Celsius degress. Makes my life little more bearable, but I'm switching to M3 Macbook pro (with proper cooling) ASAP.
Add a thermal pad to connect the heatsink to the back cover and the thermal throttling will go away. Tons of tutorials on Youtube and it takes 5 minutes. I did it on my M1 Air and it doesn't go above 85-90C now.
I kept my previous 2014 MBP for 6 years and I can't see this one being any different.