Ordered this a few days ago.. waste of money?

I’m picking up my first ever MacBook, as I think it will be a great tool for me as a student. I’m not running anything super intensive on it (most intensive might be some statistics work with R or MATLAB) but I’ll be using it a lot, so I thought the more premium display and ease of charging would be nice-to-haves. I’d find it reallyyyy difficult to extend my budget to an M4 Pro chip, but now I’m wondering whether without the pro-level chip and 16GB RAM, it was even worth spending the money on the MBP in the first place (many people seem to think not 😭).

I’m picking up my first ever MacBook, as I think it will be a great tool for me as a student. I’m not running anything super intensive on it (most intensive might be some statistics work with R or MATLAB) but I’ll be using it a lot, so I thought the more premium display and ease of charging would be nice-to-haves. I’d find it reallyyyy difficult to extend my budget to an M4 Pro chip, but now I’m wondering whether without the pro-level chip and 16GB RAM, it was even worth spending the money on the MBP in the first place (many people seem to think not 😭).