No because you make the models conservative. In the link marcan mentions they will improve performance over time (presumably partly by making the models less conservative) and are "shipping with a hard volume reduction limit of -7dBFS to catch potential bugs or misbehavior."
So speakers have a worst case maximum power and sound profile. That is the bounds that if you never exceed you will be safe. But if you push past those worst case bounds, now you are entering a dynamic system where things like temperature start determining the actual bounds of the hardware and the points where stuff starts causing damage.
Apple provides a system that drives the speakers within those bounds as close to the actual bounds as possible to get the most out of the system that they realistically can.
Asahi is trying to do the same but are choosing a profile that is far more conservative than apple to start with while they get things ironed out. This profile they have is still an improvement over the worst case bounds but it has very sharp/jarring "safeties" that trigger when the system suspects it might be close to damaging the hardware (dropping immediately to a much lower, safe level vs apple's profile which gradually shifts the audio to a safe point without making it obvious that it is doing so).
You could say Asahi Linux was very conservative about this because they disabled speakers altogether until now.
It’s ok to be quite loud for any one peak for a short amount of time (let’s say 50dB for 10ms) but for indefinite time periods much less is ok (let’s say 30dB but these are totally made up numbers). There are also limits to how much energy you can put into the speaker before it overheats. There also may be some frequencies with different limits (this is total speculation on my part). So the DSP models the behavior of the speakers and tweaks the input to prevent them from overheating (in my understanding). Normally you won’t notice this unless you are trying to play a single tone at max volume. Without this advanced DSP, you would have to just limit the output to 30dB which in practice means high volume parts of your audio are clipped or you limit to a very low volume to have enough headroom to play the louder components of your audio. Considering how loud and good modern macbooks, smartphones and smart speakers sound compared to similar sized speakers from even 10 years ago I think the effect is pretty great.
