That excuse might work for the Steam Machine, which can be produced without RAM and then installed later on. How would they even start production of something like the Steam Frame without having a supplier for RAM? Do they have all the components just gathering dust until they figure out how to obtain RAM? Or did they assemble the whole SOC without RAM only to send it again to the fabs just to solder the RAM into it? Or maybe they don’t have any of the of the components yet and are using RAM shortages as an excuse to justify other delays? These are questions that only Valve can answer, but you are free to think about which one is more realistic.
If RAM is the problem, then the Steam Controller would have been out by now. That is unless they plan to release all 3 products on the same day, which is absurd and something not even Apple does anymore.
According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans
Might as well get your information from psychedelic mushrooms.
Well, you obviously have never used BitLocker. The first thing they ask you when you activate BitLocker is to pick one of 3 options:
Link to Microsoft Account.
Save to a File
Print Recovery Key (so you can write it down on a piece of paper or whatever)
There’s no “railroading”. There’s plenty of real things to not like Microsoft. No need to make them up.