> Expecting a CPU to be stable at 100C is just asking for problems.

No. High performance gaming laptops will routinely do this for hours on end for years.

If it can't take it, it shouldn't allow it.

I've not looked at the specifics here - but "stable at X degrees, Y% duty cycle, for Z" years is just another engineering spec.

Intel's basic 285K spec's - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241060/... - say "Max Operating Temperature 105 °C".

So, yes - running the CPU that close to its maximum is really not asking for stability, nor longevity.

No reason to doubt your assertion about gaming laptops - but chip binning is a thing, and the manufacturers of those laptops have every reason to pay Intel a premium for CPU's which test to better values of X, Y, and Z.