Something can be 'technically superior' but still not the 'best' solution, because 'solution' includes a lot of factors beyond 'technological superiority.'
First to market is a crapshoot; sometimes it makes you the baseline, and sometimes it just gives your competition free market research. This is where Apple lived for a long time; let Microsoft or whoever do something, then do it better.
Well, in this case, a distinct lack of needing to compile shaders.
And consoles have been 'PCs in fancy cases' since the OG Xbox. Arguably the Dreamcast.
Buy the S2 now, while they're still working through their existing backlog of stock.
I bought a PS5Pro when the word 'tariffs' was first dropped, and I'm glad I did.
Sure, you still had to buy the license, dev kits, and so on. But at the time, Nintendo was taking something like a third of the cost per unit, right off the top, if I remember correctly.
I'm going to go reread Game Over.
"Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'." --John Sladek