This whole article is great but the last section resonates with me pretty hard at work rn:
But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless.
At work we're being pushed to use Copilot because "you shouldn't spend your time coding, you should spend it designing" (actual quote) and my guy, I enjoy coding and writing and doing things, not sending it off to the plagiarism-pollution machine
I've been trying to not use Steam on linux for a while now unless necessary (I have too many games there). GoG + Heroic keeps me pretty sane. Otherwise it's Lutris for starting them (which I'll agree is VERY clunky but you can get things done). I think we're actually getting over the hill of "Linux gaming means Steam" that we've been on since the SteamDeck launched.
This is a pretty valid-ish concern I would say. It's one of the reasons I'm using GoG mainly now (which yes, still buying licences so similar concerns just maybe not as great or maybe I'm kidding myself)