I don't think that's the case they probably have had at least a small team working on this before the Steam deck was announced. I don't think the audiences overlap that much to be honest and the two devices have different use cases.
The steam deck is just a powerful hand held computer (relative to other gaming hardware is pretty weak though) that runs PC games with all the ups and downs that come with that. I think there are number of steam deck buyer that are not that familiar with the underlying hardware that are going to be disappointed when new games are not going to run acceptably on it. Where as for the switch/switch 2 games will at least run acceptably
He lacks the understanding on how WeChat was able to get were it is. Ignoring any Chinese government help they were the default chat app for China therefore on every phone and were in a market without strong electronic payment system. All the other services that WeChat has come from the success of chat and payments.
North America and Europe for better or worse have had credit cards as the standard for electronic payments for decades now. North America uses SMS/iMessage as the default chat service and Europe uses WhatsApp. Twitter is used less than Facebook messager in both ot those markets.
Personally I would prefer if we didn't use "Lemmy" for everything. I really like programming.dev as a software development based instances. Also makes it less confusing if an instance decides to change to kbin or a future compatible server.
I've taken two data structures courses in School. My first one in C and a second one in Java. I was happy I took the C one first because in the Java course thrt used over engineered OOP. They used 6 different classes used to make a single binary tree!