Honestly, I feel like Intel is getting too much flak for Arrow Lake. While they obviously need to improve things like thread assignment with the new architecture, I feel like most of the blame needs to be assigned to Microsoft. 24H2 is absolutely broken in every single way. Every day a new article comes out about how 24H2 broke a certain feature, or gaming performance, or a software. I work in IT, and we've had to roll back 24H2 on multiple computers because it breaks multiple unrelated pieces of software that are absolutely business-critical for us, so it's not just an issue with a single feature or part of Windows.
I'm very bullish on Intel overall, even with Arrow Lake. The big-little architecture was absolutely the right move for consumers (which AMD immediately copied), they've adopted the chiplet design after seeing how well it worked for AMD (and let AMD handle much of the "teething issues), and they've moving to drop native support for x86, which I think will pair very nicely with moving to single-threaded cores and allow them to simplify core design immensely.
