Businesses ostensibly buy them "to get work done on them" but they actually tend to do so regardless of the work, and they're often truly awful day to day form

Businesses ostensibly buy them "to get work done on them" but they actually tend to do so regardless of the work, and they're often truly awful day to day form factors loaded with so much crap software that getting work done on them could be considered lucky. Everything has tradeoffs; rapid serviceability, good deals, and high specs, are all useful traits, but if they come at the cost of introducing friction between the operator and the task, then that's usually ignored by business. Sometimes that's a great tradeoff and no friction is introduced, but that's rarely part of the consideration in a top-down hierarchy where purchasing decisions are made by some other department en-masse. There is some threshold of computational demand and cost past which the specs dominate other factors, but before that I personally consider friction in various circumstances to be a higher priority.