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>as affordable
When you're talking about hybrid setups, affordability isn't even a consideration. You're going to spend at least 1k already. That is unless you get a shitty used Vive package. Like if affordability is a concern you're not going to go with the best (Index controllers, LH 2.0 base stations) then the Vive headset will still work just fine for Beat Saber and VRC, you don't need a janky Vive Flow setup. 

>and likely better than the Quest 1/Focus 2 were back in 2019
There is no evidence we have yet that can let us reasonably say this. We don't know what the chip in it is yet, and whether it has better bandwidth than the 835, just that the chip is worse than the XR2.