Well, that is clearly not true - reading the comments from the audience, they are not impressed. You can't swap out the video cards (no PCI), everything relies on Thunderbolt and even the storage will go externally. Also, going with AMD for video instead of nvidia was a poor choice - again, from the perspective of the intended audience.

This is most definitely a form over function design.

Of course they had a functional reason for the design - but the foundations behind that functional reasoning are flawed for their audience. Yes, the cooling system and ports are all impressive, but someone who does a lot of video work or audio will have a tall stack of drives and ports next to the machine, entirely defeating its purpose.