I don’t think a “come to Jesus moment” is an effective threat against a Jewish man…

For the simple case of electron-positron annihilation, they transform into high-energy photons, whose total energy is equal to the total mass-energy of the electron and positron. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron–positron_annihilation

People figured out the performance issues with Starfield when it was first announced: the Bethesda logo