I tried Stadia several times, and it just never worked well. In my case I'm pretty sure it was wireless congestion despite only having a low tier cable service

I tried Stadia several times, and it just never worked well. In my case I'm pretty sure it was wireless congestion despite only having a low tier cable service. I live in a town home right beside some condos and the throughput sinks like a stone as soon as I move away from my router. If I stood right beside the router it actually worked fine despite the relatively slow nominal performance of my internet connection. I imagine this wouldn't have been an intractable problem. I could have spent the time and money to optimize the networking in my house. But the fact is, everything else I want to do works well enough for my purposes - except Stadia. I can't imagine a non technical user would bother to diagnose this class of issue before just giving up and buying a console. Eventually my Steam Deck pre-order shipped and I never looked back.