It helps which app you mainly use.

Most of my laptops that does not last more than 2 to 4 years are those with cheap plastic casings. The first thing that will give-out were the hinges, plastic mounts for the hinge screws will break even with normal usage of opening/closing the laptop screen. If you want to buy a laptop that lasts, buy the ones with metal A (display shell), C (top case which houses the keyboard, palmrest, touchpad, etc.) panels. This means that a macbook or any Windows laptop line that have magnesium or aluminum builds.

My Dell’s 74Whr gaming laptop battery told me it’s time to be replaced after it bloated and made the touchpad inoperable just after 2 years of use.

Disregarding laptop branding your target should be AMD Ryzen 7840HS or 7940HS which can easily game on 1080p with FPS higher than 60fps on the games you mentioned on their own integrated GPU.

This video from ETA Prime shows the 7940HS gaming performance.

Those AMD variants are 4nm lithography so they will have significantly better battery life than their Intel same generation counterparts.

I have secondary gmail account just for that.

The best approach is to buy brand new power adapter. If the brand new power adapter doesn’t work then the issue it not the adapter but either the laptop port or the motherboard charging chip.

Does 100% of your work would be done on the server?

I self-host nextcloud and use Nextcloud Notes in Android.

I use Google Docs and Google Sheets on it and it’s enough for my uses.

Full install - includes latest gpu driver and latest Adrenaline Software.

Macbook (with Apple Silicon), if you can take its very high pricepoint.

If you want to expend less, buy Thinkpads, depending on the model, you can settle for cheaper just-right spec (RAM, SSD) for your needs right now and scale its capacity/performance in the future by upgrading RAM and SSD. That’s the time when those RAM and SSD are actually cheaper compared to their pricing when you buy now, you will never be able to do this with a Macbook.

I’d prefer Android over Windows for example all your workflow can be easily be done in a 350USD Android tablet (I have a Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021) with keyboard folio case and pen. I’m still the type of student that will be better when I write my notes instead of typing it, I use the Concepts for that. For video editing, I’m a noob at this but I find Capcut to be very user-friendly. There are also lots of very good photo editors in Android but I can’t specify one since its not part of my workflow. All my documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be done using Google Office apps that syncs to Google Cloud.

I’m not against you on using a laptop for your use-cases, In fact you can buy the two, a tablet and a laptop but no one knew how much laptop and tablet pricing where you’re at. I work using my laptop (programming) while I draw and take note using my tablet.