Hoooly god what a mistake it was buying the index. Imagine paying over $1000 and you're still waiting over a month later. I could have bought any other headset and i'd be weeks into enjoying it now, and they come with controllers that don't break from just moving the stick. This better be worth it valve.

Look, consider this: valve chose to make alyx vr-exclusive. If they were expecting it to be a big success, wouldn't they have they stocked up on headsets before? It'd obviously cause some kind of spike in sales, even if you can use other headsets to play it too.
If they weren't expecting it to be a big seller, why in god's name would they advertise it and waste all their time and money making this vr only game for such a comparatively small audience? AND use a franchise that fans have been starving for crumbs for?
This is a company that allegedly works on things so stupidly much it takes like 10 years to get one single release. What happened?