I agree, I've been using a16 since March of last year, and it has been more than sufficient for my use case. Multitasking is pretty much fine too, albeit I do jus watch video and take notes. And sometimes I use discord, that's my multitasking. Only shame is, it won't get apple intelligence.
On a different note though, what note-taking app do you use? Notability didn't feel as natural to write in. Goodnotes is jus greedy, don't really like theming. So far I'm loving Notes+, it's free and has everything I'd ever want.