Unpopular Opinion: Fuck Steam! They are part of the problem

Oh, Sony pulled yet another evil one recently, that every corporation hasn't stopped pulling for the last, what, half millennium? Every fucking CEO every-fucking-where in every fucking industry be like: "I know! Let's downgrade our products, keep the same price, and then charge more for our regular products and call them premium!"
- One sentence into my rant and I'm already digressing lol, but true to the heart, I just want them all to suffer horrible painful deaths because that's the merciful thing to do.

That Sony is a piece of shit, no wonder, what baffles me is how gamers praise Steam as if it ever sold any physical copies or isn't also just selling rental licenses instead of games and couldn't take them away whenever they feel like. Maybe you are dying to give old man Gabe a sloppy, but what about the shareholders taking over the company after him?
  Steam hasn't been completely evil yet, I mean, who doesn't love kids getting hooked on casino games and spending money on loot box bets, right? And it seems to have good support for controllers and for Linux, like it's exceptional to expect that when they hold like 80% of the market, but the years of late-stage capitalism set the bar for anti-consumer practices so low that nobody bats an eye at the aggressive DRM.

DRM nowadays is used on the most dystopian products that we now consider regular and directly affects the right to repair, from agricultural machinery to your fucking printer. You have to hack and crack it so you don't have to buy a whole new one or an expensive-for-no-reason part because you can't fix it nor replace it with a third-party part because they locked everything behind DRM encryption and proprietary bullshit because they feel entitled to have control over the stuff you paid for... it gets even more dystopian when you know what they have been doing to seeds... yes, horrible painful death is merciful, they deserve a horrible painful life (digressing again, but fuck them CEOs).

Yeah, having to launch a program that will connect to the internet and do all kinds of checks and telemetry recordings, even check what else I have running on my machine, just so I can launch the program I actually want to launch while this other one is consuming my battery and RAM in the background is completely surreal to me - yeah, my age is showing, and you grew up with that and think it's normal, and I'm sorry for you. But the really surreal part of online stores is that you press a button saying "buy" but it's actually a lease and they are outwardly shamelessly lying to you, and you have no rights at all, no termination fee or shit. What Sony just did a few days ago by removing movies from their store and telling the users who "bought" them to go fuck themselves, all those online stores can do that whenever they feel like because you agreed to their terms.

Yeah, there are games on Steam that are technically DRM-free, and if you learn what files to delete and move you can get a portable version of them without hacking or cracking, and maybe it's legal to do it? I have no idea how their licenses are, but I'd count on them being draconian even though technically there's no DRM check on the game.

The only alternative, besides the very few devs selling physical copies or copies on their own sites, is GOG, where they, so far, have a hardcore anti-DRM stance and won't sell games with DRM protection, and the money they make they spend recovering old titles and making them playable on modern hardware, games that they sell for cents because they are old games lol. After you buy and download a game from GOG you can tell them to go fuck themselves because you no longer need them for anything, you get your installer and can save on your computer, on an external HDD, a flash drive, on a cloud service you subscribe to, burn to CDs/DVDs/Blurays (they even break the games in 4gb parts so you can burn them on DVDs at home), it's yours and you can do whatever you want, you don't need their launcher to play, and that's how fucking games should be, so if you think Sony is bad (and also Nintendo, Microsoft, Epic, Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA, etc, etc - yes, they all are), and you fear for game preservation and ownership, stop funding Steam and their crap, don't give money to DRM-protected games. Fuck Steam! They are part of the problem.

ps: If you want to play a DRM-protected game, since you can't buy it, only lease it, the only morally correct thing to do is to pirate it.