Valve never said they weren’t gonna update the steamdeck, if you read the actual quote all those articles mentioned it’s very specific. Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais said “It’s important to us that the Deck offers a fixed performance target for developers, and that the message to customers is simple, where every Deck can play the same games. As such, changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly, and we only want to do so when there is a significant enough increase to be had. We also don’t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life. I don’t anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years, but we’re still closely monitoring innovations in architectures and fabrication processes to see where things are going there.” So, no one to my knowledge said they weren’t updating the deck, only that performance upgrades alone wouldn’t warrant an update for a few years. I’ve seen many misinformed people complaining and claiming valve was lying about this, I don’t agree. For anyone wondering the source of the quote was a verge article. If I’m mistaken please let me know, I’d like to see people’s opinions.