I’ve got the 11th gen i5 and could get Doom 2016 running decently enough to play the single player campaign at native resolution, although the fan was running full blast the whole time and more than half of the graphics were down to medium. I’d love to hear what the AMD system can do.

As a point of reference, for me, Terraria runs great. Portal runs great. In Vampire Survivors, don’t pick Sammy and attempt an endless run, but otherwise it runs pretty well.

I’ve read a few posts from people saying after upgrading to the AMD motherboard, the speakers got louder.

The weak speakers is the biggest thing I’ve noticed. They just aren’t loud enough if you want to cue up a video and show it to a few people. They can’t cut though the background noise.

Sometimes if I bump it really hard, the trackpad registers a false click.

There are cheaper ways to get a laptop with the same specs as a framework, but the thing to consider is not just the upfront cost, but the long term cost of ownership. If something breaks or you want to upgrade, you can swap out the components instead of replacing the whole thing.
eg. instead of spending $1500 every 2 years on a new laptop, you can spend $2000 now, then $1000 every 2 years on upgrades.

I’d be happy to have a dual usb-c expansion port without thunderbolt 4 / display port alt mode / power delivery standard.

Sometimes, I just want to charge my mouse and headphones at the same time without unplugging my laptop, and they are happy with the old 5v 500mA USB standard and don’t need USB4 speeds.

Expecting full Thunderbolt 4 functionality from a dual expansion card would be unreasonable. I’m thinking something like a dual C ports with USB 2.0 specs.