Even having high-end enthusiast hardware, I want those devices as the baseline too. Whatever optimizations they do still apply over the whole hardware spectrum.

Also, you can technically say 2030 is less than 4 years away if you want to traumatize old people. Lol.

According to valves hardware survey over half of all gamers have hardware less powerful than the Steam Machine so provided valve don't go mad with the pricing that may actually end up happening.

I think the steam deck and the switch 2 are probably too low power to be reasonable targets.