It's coming up in an odd way in the mountain biking community, where they talk about min-maxing.
The idea is minimum budget, maximum effect for that expense (what's the best I can do with the bike I've got, rather than going the 'full midlife crisis'/orthodontist approach of spending $15-25k on what's basically the latest handbag bike).
I'm assuming it's because one of new Zealand's national sports is neglecting infrastructure maintenance for decades and then selling it off because it's too expensive.
Then 40 years later when we can't have nice things any more, we need some infrastructure, we realise it has to be paid from somewhere and rates includes a lot of that 'somewhere'
This has been a nationwide issue for generations, sadly - we're not really a first-world county (although technically, that's a political distinction, not about the std of living)
I go clientless with GOG, too - but their download speed was atrocious every time I tried. Steam nails that, unfortunately...
Infuriatingly, steams constant updates and massive start up delays (we have multiple users with different accounts) straight up sucks - we'd be better off suffering the one-off download delays, really.
Cloud saves are amazing, but I try and launch stuff not through steam as its just a slow, bloated old mess I can't stand dealing with (I'm also quite OK with migrating data around computers and keeping it stored safely)
I get you on those points - they had a legit job to do, now they're just who stroking devices (and honestly, that's valid - just don't do it in front of everyone else!)
It's coming up in an odd way in the mountain biking community, where they talk about min-maxing.
The idea is minimum budget, maximum effect for that expense (what's the best I can do with the bike I've got, rather than going the 'full midlife crisis'/orthodontist approach of spending $15-25k on what's basically the latest handbag bike).