Having had the 32GB machine for about two weeks now; and now having worked a little bit with Screenflow 10/iMovie, I stand by the statement above; I would have been absolutely fine with the M1Pro 16GB model. Although one can never have too much RAM, I suppose, the extra couple hundred dollars would have paid for AppleCare+ - a better use of the money since it’s pretty obvious that 16GB would have been fine, even with all those apps (and two 27" monitors) in use.