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This is my main concern, if I'm being completely honest.
But that also applies the other way arround. I'm a bit of a workaholic, so most of the time I open my current notebook on the sofa I start to code. Having a device without a physical keyboard may stop me from on working outside my workroom or coding during vacations, for example.
I have worked remotely on and off for years. Having a physical separation between the space where I work and the space where I play is an absolute must.
Beyond that - the hardware needs for development and gaming are wildly different. If you want something that's going to be good at both, you're going to either going to have to spend a lot of money or compromise heavily on quality.
The second paragraph kinda depends on how much horsepower they need for dev or gaming. If they play mostly indie games and don't need cuda cores as an example, a steamdeck-like would serve pretty effectively in both roles, especially with the docking station.