Not OC, duh.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
A monopoly is just an observation of the market landscape. Doesnt require ill intent or anti-competitive practices. Steam is just a benevolent monopoly. Until its not...
I think the issue is there is the economic concept of monopoly and there is the type of monopoly defined and banned by regulation. They are similar but not the same
So like Epic in case of Unreal Engine and Microsoft in case of Windows. Steam makes up a fifth of all PC gaming revenue and EGS has a wide installed based because of Fortnite, Rocket League etc. People just choose not to spend their money there for games that are available elsewhere. That's different from EGS not being able from supplying goods and services because they were pushed out.
There is competition. And the term "monopolize" is used as a way of saying someone took action to stomp out the competition so I would say that 99% of people would assume intent whether or not it's technically a part of the definition, because 99% of the time a monopoly exists it's not by accident. But again, importantly, there IS competition.