Is it worth it to pay more? If you have the money go for it. If you need the better battery go for it. If you’re emulating old systems just buy the cheapest option and slap a 512 or 1tb M.2 in the LCD model. It’s really easy. N64 isn’t going to look much better on an OLED.
Absolutely nothing has changed in the tech sector. Valve put the LCD Deck on sale to get rid of stock so they can make room for the new hardware. This happens constantly. Always has. The only way to make any predictions on what a business does is to have a seat in the board room.
Eh. It happens. Welcome to an economy based on fiat currency. Discounting a product in order to get your inventory down to zero? That’s just normal business practice. This was bound to happen with all the $1k portable alternatives out there. Valve continues to go for the better value solid product to sell more games on their storefront.
It’s only the windows portion that doesn’t work properly. Just missing wireless and audio although there’s a wifi driver that supposedly works. Update Steam OS to 3.5 or newer on the LED before swapping M.2.
With Clover dual boot, works just fine. Just have to set up your vram to 4gb again. Boot the whole thing up normally. Let it do some updates through steam os. Then shut down and boot with volume up+ power to force start into Clover, if you use Clover.