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Even if you have an off the shelf PC, upgrading that PC would probably be cheaper and provide more functionality.
Not necessarily. Many off-shelf desktops are, let's put it nicely, "highly optimized for mass production." They may not have open slots required for upgrades. In the case of a GPU or CPU upgrade, the slot may be incompatible altogether, or, the mainboard may not have the proper bus to support the upgrade. I've had to sunset old machines that I built because I couldn't upgrade them. Not because they were incapable, but because the supported hardware was no longer in production. The only option for a RAM upgrade was paying some dingus on eBay $500 for a stick that would have been $60 if it was still in production.
As I said: You're a builder. It is not a value-add for you. You are not in their target demographic. I know a lot of people that would very much like to buy a gaming-ready PC that isn't loaded with crapware though. The Steambox is an actual PC. It's running SteamOS, which is just a Linux port. It has all the same functionality as a PC. If you don't like SteamOS, then go install Wine, or Ubuntu, or whatever flavor of Linux you prefer. Nobody is stopping you.