I really wish people talked about this stuff more when it comes to laptops. Hot temps and loud fans are a super turn-off for me. I'm willing to compromise performance for a quieter, cooler runtime, but usually all I can find out about a laptop is its processor clock speed and a horribly inaccurate battery life estimate.
Computer thermals are weird. You can ultimately choose between a gimped device that stays cool under load or a spectacularly hot, dynamically clocked CPU. I normally cut the clock speed of my CPU in half with any new laptop, since I'm really only going to use it for text editing/SSH. That alone is good enough to lock it below 40c, but there are other ways to achieve a similar effect.
Loud fans and hot temps are fine for me, in isolation. But knowing those hot temps (and to a degree those loud fans) are slowly killing my laptop, and likely very quickly killing my battery, much faster than you'd imagine, yeh, it suddenly becomes a bigger priority.
For me, I've never found a laptop as good as the older thinkpads at handling temps.
I had a 16" MacBook Pro that was so hot and loud all the time that I just couldn't stand it anymore and sold it to buy an M1 MacBook Air, which thankfully doesn't even have a fan.
I don't understand how it didn't come up in any reviews, because you don't have to push it super hard to make it happen.
I rely on notebookcheck [1] for stuff like this--best notebook reviews I've ever read. If you go down to Emissions there's a "Temperature" subsection with pretty detailed info.
My xps 13 with 2 fans can get hot enough to be unconfortable, so i can't imagine how it will be with a single fan