Having thinkpads at work, super disappointed in their last few years. If non-P series they are all insane in throttling for coding, and video calls with multiple people are bad. They're designed at like 15-20W throttling after 10s for a 28W CPU, halves the performance to crap, even in performance mode. This is with a: T15 (gen 1 and 2 I think), T16 (1270P). The P15v is a lot better, their 45W configs.
Note though that up until recently, there was a shortage for thinkpads, still a shortage on the P series.
I'd probably just buy a cheaper laptop at half the price, then another in 5 years, not worth it since warranty in South Africa sucks, besides Lenovo throttling, and the P series you're not gaming, so why pay the premium?
Wootware also sells them as an aside.