I think this point is really important, and allow me to go one step further: I work in the public sector of education and purchasing technology is such a complex issue that IT governance has to be involved with decisions like this. That's to say that, without a governing body to review purchases (outside of whoever handles the actual procurement, i.e. funds leaving the bank account), mistakes like this will happen.
We can be upset with planned obsolescence, but there's distinctly a human error here where there wasn't enough research and planning.
Gamers Nexus and The Linux Experiment kinda rubbed me the wrong way in a way that I'm not sure how to describe, so i personally couldn't get into those when I tried BUT I can vouch that they are both popular and Gamers Nexus in particular is well endeared by the PC/Gaming community