Not if the anecdote contradicts an equally unsubstantiated generalisation, honestly. If you're going to complain about the quality of the discussion, do it with both sides, not just the argument you side against.
Well, it’s really not that hard to search on Google for “percent of laptops running ARM” and find something slightly less silly than “no one I know owns a MacBook nor does anyone I work with”
And the first link is
https://www.patentlyapple.com/2023/02/apple-currently-owns-9...
It would be much more substantial than anecdotal what his friends and coworkers do.
It’s about as bad as the old Slashdot “do people still watch TV? I haven’t own a TV in 10 years”