Asahi is not that bad, did you try it out? I’ve been building a Sway configuration from scratch on it since two weeks and it’s working pretty well. Did a ton of administrative stuff with it yesterday without much trouble other than the key bindings being a bit weird coming from macOS.
Last time I checked M3 support is not coming anytime soon. M1 is kinda sorta maybe good enough sometimes? But it wouldn't be my main dev box.