Yeah same here, i barely play with the steam deck anymore and im back on playing on the pc or the switch with the spit pad pro, not worth having something portable weight almost 1kg lol. I have been looking into the rog ally but its just like 60grams less than the deck.
The headline doesnt make any sense. It crossed 230k CONCURRENT (playing at the same time right now) on steam. That does not mean that 230k players have bought the early access. They have probably more than a million or two early access players at least between xbox and pc (both steam and microsoft store) to have those numbers on steam alone in concurrent players.