Your perception of lemmy has been tainted by the kind of communities you interact with. You and I have wildly different experiences on this app.
Part of the reason you feel this way may be caused by you being subscribed to unpopularopinion, an inherently contrarian community. If you'd like to be happy, stop following that community.
I also encourage you to avoid engaging in political conversations with non-rational people: It is extremely unlikely that they will change their minds, and even if you do reach an understanding, that conversation is really likely to leave you with a sour feeling.
In comparison, the communities I'm in are mostly about memes, IT, privacy and LGBT stuff. No news about the war, and no political arguments with random, possibly deranged, users.
The instance I'm in doesn't even have downvotes! Depending on how you use lemmy, you can have either really good or really bad experiences. I recommend u to try to avoid conflict, and maybe even switch to a downvote-less instance.
Title should be "Steam-less games?". The word capitalization and the spacing between "Steam" and "Less" makes no sense at all. Also, including double question-marks is over-the-top, as though your request were urgent. Its games what you're asking for, not some medicine. Get a grasp on grammar.
Set your DNS to AdGuard servers.
Downloads the Mull Browser from F-Droid with the uBlockOrigin addon, so you can browse the internet without ads.
Download a Firewall: Netguard is recommended. Apps that don't have internet can't load ads.
If you have root:
Firewall: AfWall+
Also, use the app "App Manager" from F-Droid to disable all app components that have "ad" in their name.
With this multi-layer approach you'll deal with 99.99% of ads
No, that would use up too much storage lol. Also, 99% of people don't update their apps manually, instead, they just let the Google Playstore handle it whenever it feels like it
lmao