A huge appeal of consoles vs PC for me, and it’s been apparent this is the way it’s been for some time, is the difference in “setting” where you are consuming this content. I think this accounts for much of the appeal of the Switch. The Steam Machine sorta-kinda worked in this regards - the living room PC - and i did enjoy it for the year or two the Alienware Alpha worked as a windows TV PC rather than simply a PC, but clearly that died on the vine. It’s almost like for PC only gamers, the Steam Deck is the first time they’ve experienced the joys of playing a PC game and not sitting in an ugly PC environment.
It’s kind of tied into my low level loathing of the “consumer desktop gaming PC” as a relic of the 1980s PC form factor and design, and certain inertia of Taiwanese supply chains.