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Nothing is relevant outside of the steam deck. Steam is actively developed software that requires updating the kernel and dependencies on the device. All the hardware manufacturers like Asus are not using a dev team to maintain hardware compatibility and they will never fully mainline their source code.
It means all of the other manufacturer's hardware will depreciate quickly as software evolves in the real world. Hardware specs are a fallacy and completely irrelevant when the software they run is not static. When the software can change, the only relevant device is the one directly supported by those that maintain the software.
What does all this mean?
The Rog Ally is a Windows machine. It doesn't really need a team to maintain compatibility or "mainline their source code".
I’m guessing he is referring to the fact we aren’t going to see tailored updates like the Steam Deck has gotten over the years. Updates that improve performance and the experience. It’s windows so beyond device drivers and their terrible ArmorCrate software there isn’t much room to grow better. It’s not a bad device though, it just misses the point.
All depends. If you play games that only run in Windows, you'll want a Windows device. If you want maximum performance at the expense of battery life, you won't want a Steam Deck either.
Ideally Valve would work on making SteamOS as good on Ally as it is on SD but they don't seem to be interested in that.