Gary Gygax dungeons were infamous for the "there's 3 doors. Behind door 1 is a swarm of giant poisonous killer bees, behind door 2 is an insta kill trap and behind door 3 is a tunnel leading to a chest full of gold and gems" situation without any way to distinguish the doors.
It's a de facto monopoly, just like windows was a de facto monopoly despite macos and Linux existing.
There are plenty of good games that don't make it on Steam, and Valve does very little for the money.
It's worth it if you're in the 1% of titles that succeed because of Steam.
The next question is should any company have that kind of power.
Steam's monopoly is a real problem. Microsoft had less of a monopoly on computers when they got investigated.
Sorry I'm french and it came to me while grabbing pain killers. I shared with my wife, she absolutely hated it so I figured it was good enough for the sub.
It's also a derivative from another one i read before: french people are so hardcore they eat pain for breakfast.
Why wasn't PNG enough to replace jpeg?