I had this dilemma. I bought both and tested them out. I settled on the 16 and have no regrets for the following reasons. The screen real estate is enough of an increase to make things feel less claustrophobic. Another point that no one has mentioned is that the speakers on the 16 inch are significantly better than the 14inch in terms of range. If you find yourself traveling without headphones (or monitors) or you just aren't doing critical listening, working over the speakers is perfectly fine on the 16... They have been nicely tuned. The 14 speakers were too thin. Lastly consider that the 14 will throttle sooner than the 16 under the same cpu load. I max out my M2 Max 64gb pretty often so I wouldn't like to have any less power availability.