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It's primary purpose is DRM which is a net burden to society. Everything else you list is to help you forget that.
30% is mad decent. For all the haters on California's insane tax, steam takes a 3x larger cut on all income, and California build roads with it. Steam maybe develops half-baked features.
The steam drm is basically non-existent, in fact pirated games use steam specifically to participate in multiplayer with cracked versions
It's a developers choice to release on Steam with DRM, Valve does not enforce it, there are games with no DRM on Steam.
Half baked features? I don't remember the last time I tried using one of Steam's features that I listed (and others I didn't list) and it didn't work incredibly well.
Don't get me wrong, I believe DRM generally only causes problems for paying customers and I'd be much happier without it, but I think Steam's DRM is one of the least invasive solutions that currently exist.
Exactly. Steam DRM is totally up to the developers to use or not. So don't be mad at Valve for devs using it, be mad at the devs. But remember, if they aren't using Steam's DRM, they're probably going to use something much worse.
Steam is an incredibly user-friendly launcher. They have useful features, and I've honestly never had any problems with anything on their platform. It just works, and that's about all I can ask for as a user.
You can manage the file destinations and launch .exe's without loading the Steam client.
Are you sure you know enough about this to be loudly proclaiming your hot take without looking like a jackass?