Looks like you had another bad experience attempting to buy āthe last fuss on the marketā
Asus overall is not a bad brand. Hovewer, the ROG model was supposed to be (and still it is) a competitor for Alienware products.
Shortly speaking, cheapest gaming laptops.
Early models are known to fail due to lot of design shortcuts made, most of them caused by overheating.
Asus was not the only one failing in this, I had bad experience with other brands like HP, Dell and so on, resulting in garbage (altough i have the knowledge how to do a reflow or resolder from my previous life as a maintenance engineer, i donāt have the patience to buy the needed tools and actually doing it)
So i throw away the āgarbargeā and moved forward.
LE:read it like, for gaming, buy a console, for programing buy a decent laptop.
towers are for nerdsā¦ or fish lovers (yeah, with a tower case you can make a beatifull fish tank)