I’m no expert on… well anything… but supposing this isn’t some ROG ALLY ad, why would you buy a second Steam Deck after learning Valve doesn’t support them in your country? That is a lot of money, even for the 64GB model.

Valve chose the components of the Steam Deck pretty darn carefully. I don’t expect any upgrade path, except what they have done with the OLED, because it would destroy the parity they sought. Part of the Steam Deck platform is giving the developers a set series of specs to shoot for, for portable performance. This advantage is part of how the Deck has competed with its more powerful rivals, alongside the sheer amount of software-level support Valve has offered.

That’s the intended method. I never had any problems with it, but if you do, you probably need a third party case.

Sounds like you aren’t used to PC gaming. GUI issues are often a simple fix and even games like Cyberpunk and God of War had issues on PS5 with text scaling at launch. I can’t imagine a little more than a half-inch would make so much of a difference that I’d give up the extra features of a Deck.

That said, nothing can change the ecosystem you built up. I chose to build my Steam library back in 2010 because I can always upgrade my pc, but games aren’t guaranteed to work on next gen consoles and I didn’t want to buy multiple copies. If you are in the PlayStation ecosystem, the Deck is going to be more costly to natively run games.

In the end, you do you. Enjoy what you enjoy and no one else should change it. But, I wouldn’t expect a Steam Deck based community to not defend the Deck. It’s like going to r/PS5 and talking about how the Series X turned you off of the PS5. A PS5 community might have more kindred spirits for you.