I don’t quite understand the criticism. It’s not gonna be top of the line, but it’s more than enough to replace my dying laptop from 2015 that I pretty much only ever use like a desktop anyway. And I can save myself the time and effort of picking parts, building, and dealing with shit not working as expected.
I don’t disagree with you at all, but if I still had PC gamer friends and they were playing stuff like this, i might have a tough choice to make… even if it is
If any friends of mine would play League I would try to rescue them out of that toxic hellhole of an objectively unsustainably designed game (have hundreds of hours myself from my preteens and early teens) and respectfully explain to them their technical incompetence or lack of proper priorities in that matter (which counts for anyone installing Kernel level malware disguised as anti cheats)
If it were Valorant, I’d just ask them to play CS2 with me :p