I have just checked on mine. 6 months of use in - the chassis seems to be decently bent.
Also, I have noticed that the bottom feet do not sit perfectly on the desk, but the left and right extremities are lifted up. Very evident here:
Using a ruler, various other points of the laptop are not perfectly straight.
I think it’s a design flaw, and this chassis material simply isn’t solid enough to stay perfectly straight for long if you use it like a laptop should be used - directly, and being taken out and about. This is further confirmed by the fact that over the months I have started noticing just how flimsy and creaky the entire laptop is. Move the lid - creak. Pick it up in a way it doesn’t like - creak. Move the laptop around - creak, once again.
This is nothing entirely new, either. Large diagonal laptops tend to suffer from deck flex and bending issues more than smaller laptops, as the much larger surface is simply much more prone to deflection. You know when people recommend against gaming laptops due to their build quality? It’s not their performance and discrete GPU that makes the build quality worse, it’s the larger size. Most ultrabooks are 14" or smaller nowadays, and the niche of “16 inch, no dGPU, non gaming laptop” is in rapid decline. Now, add modularity into the mix, further removing structural integrity, and you got yourself the perfect recipe for deck flex and bending.
I wonder if this is part of what makes my unit feel so rattly.