The AI NAS category is a mess and i don't understand why nobody has fixed the obvious problem

Went deep on this over the past month because i'm trying to spec something for a small video production company, eight people, lots of large files, starting to want to do AI assisted editing and search and transcription and whatever comes next.

current landscape as i understand it:

Synology and Qnap: mature software, terrible hardware for AI, their "AI features" are embarrassing compared to what you can run locally on a halfway decent GPU, they're selling NAS boxes with NAS CPUs and calling it AI ready

minisforum and that category: genuinely interesting, the new ones with ryzen AI chips are not a joke, but the storage story is weak and they're clearly a PC company trying to figure out the NAS side rather than the other way around

zettlab: pretty hardware, their OS is still rough, saw a review where the reviewer said the AI features required too much manual setup to be useful for non technical users, also no real GPU expansion

DIY: this is where you end up if you want something that actually works but now you're maintaining a server and that's a part time job

the product that should exist is a tower that treats local AI inference as the primary purpose, has real GPU expansion, has real storage capacity, has software that's designed for actual workflows not demos, and doesn't require a homelab hobbyist to set up

does this exist and i'm not finding it or is there genuinely a gap here???