The thing about gaming is that it’s not acceptable to leave 5% performance on the table whereas for other uses it usually is.
Also you can plug a mouse in a console… that's a weird excuse.
> And I do want a high end PC for other use cases.,
Right, you don't want two devices (that's fair). How can you _possibly_ trust the locked down device won't interfere with the other open software it's installed side by side with?
This is the only defense Microsoft has against the growing Linux Gaming crowd. Microsoft forgot how to make good, consumer friendly software.
I think that’s an incredibly rare stance not held by the vast majority of gamers, including competitive ones.
That would mean those who are concerned about the integrity would want to sandbox everything else instead. And even if people are ok with giving up a small bit of perf when gaming, I’m sure they’re even more happy to give up perf when doing online banking.