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As you said, for $2K (I am assuming the real price is closer to $2,200 if it's US style list prices) it is reasonable to expect a Strix Halo system.
The 7940HS is Zen 4 from ~3 years ago. Single thread performance isn't all that great by modern standards and MT is subpar. Considering the form factor, it's probably not much better than a 5800X (in a real case with strong cooling) from ~5 years ago.
It's reasonable to expect that a professional, “computers for experts” that's "made for making", has strong ST performance and especially MT for $2K+. Not all professional use cases benefit from GPU compute, many require both ST and MT CPU performance.
I would argue it's not deceptively good.