It's entirely possible that this story (and 122 hn comments so far) is about a dish with a loose heatsink, and not a product that always shuts down at 122F.
It may also be the case that the thermal limit is currently set more conservatively than it needs to be. When every hardware unit is rare, costly and yet vital to gathering beta data, the choice to go extra conservative on thermal limits to prevent damage to scarce hardware deployed in the field seems logical.
Hot summer is like 3-4 months over there, so about 100 very-hot-cold cycles per year.
Let’s see if it withstands that.
I think you're probably right about it being an edge case heatsink issue, one that was amplified by Dishy's placement.
Outside of that, Starlink has been great for us. Having a real connection rather than a 1 bar 4g connection has been life changing out at the farm.