Remember when Valve would not honor refunds at all?
Remember their abysmal VACNET management? Oh, ongoing to this day.
Remember how Valve's very beginning was fighting piracy and bad publisher practices and now became the gatekeeper of their own rebellion?
Valve geo-blocks accounts preventing users from finding cheaper sales in other countries.
What happened to the paid mods era of 2015? What a fiasco.
Why do skins/loot boxes exist? These were a feature of the modding community and free, implemented on thousands of community servers, which Valve barely support nowadays. Valve were one of, if not THE first to monetize skins AND stifle the creator community, or worse, give them a paltry payout for adoption while they rake in billions.
Why risk creative/innovative bets when the platform prints cash with minimal effort?
Valve are chaos neutral - Not your friend