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For plenty of Valve's customers, that's irrelevant, as they'll never use it in a room that doesn't have a powerful PC in it, but it does mean that it needs more hardware inside, including RAM, when hardware, especially RAM is particularly expensive.
agreed personally I'd pay extra to avoid all the failure modes a custom os brings I've had quests brick them selves for no reason other then some weird software problem I'd much rather have a dumb wired headset then one that runs a bloated buggy install of linux or android all of the once in a decade edge case of maaaybe playing a game on it when my pc's down