I think an important factor people seem to forget about the steam deck is that it won’t simply cease to be supported like sony or nintendo do with their consoles. If a game comes out on steam and works on linux, it’ll work on the deck. Considering the amount of people developing wonderful but lightweight games, I doubt you’ll ever think 'this platform is dead".

I have to say that the steam dock never gave me a single issue with a constant use since around launch, so your experience may vary.

Not helpful to the post but - if anything, this would convince me to ditch EA games.