The C2 is the best machine I've ever purchased. Ive got 3.6 million lifetime meters on mine, and the most I've ever done to maintain it is wipe down the rail/rollers and put some 3-1 oil on the chain.
You are 100% right, the C2 is a tank. I have one too.
But the C2 might not be right for everyone. I think we might be able to get more butts on rowers if we can make the experience more enjoyable for those who aren't motivated by the C2 and its current content.
Yeah and it's not like your body is going to stay buried there forever. A couple hundred years from now some historians will dig it up for science to see how people lived in the past.
You could alternatively use the google AI Platform Notebooks which are basically the same thing and billed per hour. You can now Prebake a docker images with all of the libraries that you need.