I’m not liking the MacBook/MacBook Pro price/performance ratio these days. I do my big work on a 27” retina iMac, and take it over remotely with a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12” tablet - trading in for an iPad Pro next year. I think that is the future, rather than taking the whole computing platform on the road and trying to make a small screen notebook do everything.
When I bought my latest MacBook I debated whether to get the small or large one. I finally decided to go with the smaller one because it’s more portable. When I’m at home, I plug in an extra monitor (about 3x the size of the MacBook screen) and work on both screens.
Maybe not a solution for everyone, but this has worked extremely well for me. If I were going to spend more money on a MacBook, I’d get more memory rather than more screen space.