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What you are paying for is a standardised experience.
There is a reason people visit Rome or Vietnam and still go to McDonalds: predictable, reliable experience.
QED steambox is the PC version of McDonald's in Rome or Vietnam
The McDonald's in Rome (specifically, the one near the Spanish Steps) is pretty darn nice, NGL. I got a gelato there once, which is better than anything I ever got at an American McDonalds.
(Ironically for the grandparent commenter's point, I visited two McDonald's on that trip specifically to see what might be different about them in other countries. The other one was in the Amsterdam airport during my layover, whereupon I got a McKrocket. It was suitably weird.)
Also, if something isn't working, you can RMA the whole machine. If you build a PC yourself, and it's not working, it then becomes your job to troubleshoot and figure out exactly which component is causing the issue, so you can then RMA just that.
This is my main reason. Valve has a good reputation. If I buy a game and it doesn't work, then I can complain and will probably get my money back. I know developers will target my platform specifically.
I only want to troubleshoot if the whole thing is open source and I really can fix it myself. Other people pay me to figure out problems in proprietary software. This will be Valve's computer in my home, not my computer.
But I can build a hamburger at home for less money.
In 3.7L?
Yes you can. And yet I bet you've ordered pre made food before, or food delivery.
You've probably bought plenty of things you could've done yourself for cheaper. You've probably hired handymen to do things like install washing machines, or movers to transport your stuff, or painters or roofers or cleaners. All of those things are cheaper to do yourself. Do you portray people paying for those things as idiots in memes as well ?
Convenience has value, and it's not weird, or inconsistent or stupid for people to be willing to pay a premium on the convenience of someone else doing things, even if you could do them yourself. Especially because a large convenience factor is that if someone else does it, someone else is responsible for fixing it if it goes wrong.
Make your homemade PC fit inside the Steam Box profile, then tell me the price of ingredients