Sounds like it will be the same as the last, small incremental upgrades. That’s perfectly fine, every release of mostly anything doesn’t need to be massive overhauls.
yeah this news is only disappointing for people who buy new computers every year (is that even a thing?). Whatever upgrades it has will also feature the last 4+ years of updates, so to someone coming from an M4 yeah yikes. But for my m1 max? it will be noticeable.