The fact that a reservation queue is needed in the first place?

It's a perception issue. People tend to overhype anything that Valve does as a whole.

Nobody would be bothered much if this was some small Chinese Kickstarter project doing it but Valve is acting like this when they're a multi billion $ company with decades of experience.

Besides, do measures ever work? Every year, scalpers still somehow manage to bypass the system and resell en masse.

Just ordered my Xiaomi pad 8 yesterday for 370€, waiting for it to arrive. Nice upgrade on the battery but couldn't they round it up to 10000mah for good measure? Also, the lesser model is gonna use the same CPU as last year? A bit weird but still a great chip regardless.

The nvme disk is basically sitting on top of the CPU that can heat up to 100C during load (and will since this is a gaming unit). A storage flash chip is literally 2cm away from a heat source - a major design flaw, this will have huge negative impact on the storage and fast. Expect mass warranty claims in the next 6 - 12 months.