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Someone on Lemmy said that would require Valve to completely rewrite the Proton layer (which they've invested tons of time and money in) and probably the SteamOS would require significant overhaul too. And all the backwards compatibility would be thrown out the window.
Or in other words, that would require Valve to completely redesign the Deck from scratch.
Considering the trend seems to be a move towards ARM (see Mac M1, Windows on ARM + Window's ARM translation layer) - I wouldnt be surprised if they do exactly that, eventually.
There's already some work that might lead to it. As ARM gains prevalence, I think it'll happen sooner rather than later - once all of those dependencies do all the hard work. The efficiency of ARM for mobile devices like the Steam Deck really just scream for it