Don't play dumb. It is unbecoming.

You cannot know whether there will be a breakthrough. At this time, all that is known says there will not be one.

As to breakthroughs having happened in other areas, that is not an indicator that one will happen here. That is just a form of survivorship bias.

You are hilariously without insight.

With them currently needing bout 15x as much revenue as they have to keep the lights on? Very improbable indeed.

The question is what bugs they miss. Because that determines whether you still need to do a full review and that review does not actually get mich faster when there are fewer bugs.

It seems meaningless stunts is all that the reminder of what once was "IBM Research" can produce these days.

Age gates cannot be placed in any meaningful way in Linux. Not possible. Hence they may be placed somewhere, but they will be meaningless. Example: My Linux systems have no systemd. Second example: You can boot Linux from read-only medium and that possibility will not go away.

The child is you. Actual adults understand that things still need to work, regardless of laws. Hence laws may need to be worked around.

Just wait until you see Steam Machine pricing.

Anyway, Sony can jog on. They raised prices in Europe when Trump brought tariffs in on Americans.

Where will they find a control group?

... Ride of the Valkyries.

... find my cat.

... if you do it twice.

It depends on what you want.. If you want a non upgradable appliance that kinda just works as long as you do it the Apple way, they are fine.

The advantage of a PC is you can pick your components and upgrade them, but with the downside that you may have issues like the one I described.