You’ve clearly not been paying attention.

For all the talk of people saying they replaced the TIM on their console, laptop, GPU, etc, the idea that you HAVE to do it eventually seems greatly exaggerated. Sure it will help keep thermals lower, but I’ve never once HAD to do it personally and only console I’ve ever had fail is the original Xbox 360.

The PS3 is over ten years old, way past the average life span of a lithium battery (up to 10 years). Maybe a tad shortsighted of them to embed it so deeply into the console but at least they put it somewhere that decreases the chances of damage if it leaks. That’s worlds apart from the original Xbox where they used capacitors that failed and trashed the motherboard. Xbox 360 I believe doesn’t even have the facility to retain the date/time and had far more serious issues.

Then you risk the Switch falling over as its vertical rather than at an angle. So you get a scratched screen AND potentially destroy the USB-C connector, the most difficult part to replace.

Game load times always seem to be CPU bottlenecked on consoles anyway.

The problem with the PS4 is it might be thin but its really too deep. I find it really hard to fit on my shelf and I would have preferred it to be twice as tall and an inch or too less deep. It would also have helped fit a larger fan I expect.

I didn't like the original Xbox One especially the external PSU, but it looks like the S is a very nice refined design.

Not for long though as an SSD used without TRIM support in the OS or correct partition alignment will slow down dramatically over time.

I would be concerned of major stutters every time a game has to save to the SSD and the drive not lasting very long before needing to be replaced due to excessive wear.