>I prefer the console experience of clicking a button to order, plugging it in and playing.

You're mixing up the experience of putting together the machine and using it. Why do you think playing games on Steam is not just clicking play and playing?

>Valve is doing the vertical integration, they're putting together the hardware, the software and the OS, of course you'll be getting a better experience than pulling together random stuff.

I mean, the GN review already talks about how some things don't quite work right because games are seeing Steam OS and assuming the hardware is a Deck. I'm not so sure it's such a given that the experience will be smoother, at least in the early days.