Steamdeck is a company innovating and putting money into full time devs improving and building a community and ecosystem. This has long term value. Everyone else is trying to privateer (legal piracy) on the backs of the steamdeck using marketing targeting imbeciles. Hardware specs and marketing are for idiots. These companies operate by paying a series of highly skilled contractors to quickly create the needed hardware design and checklist of software. Each group works for a short time, finishes the checklist, gets paid and never works on the product again. This is all orchestrated by venture capital. The only goal is return on investment and whatever nonsense you need to hear to make a dumb decision without returning the product quickly enough. The steamdeck is a bunch of slightly less skilled devs with a stable job working full time to make your experience better. Long term, the steamdeck has value. Second hand, only a moron will buy the other hardware, the real world reviews will be terrible, and the thing will fail to work all together within 1-2 years because no one will maintain the kernel for the device and it will be a worthless orphan kernel that the community can never support. This isn’t even a contest. The choice is obvious.