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The secret sauce there is linux support. It may sound like a marginal thing, but Valve has been working on making Linux gaming viable for over a decade now and it's paying off in spades. GOG exists, sure, but they're a fraction of Valves influence for a reason. Besides, there was a DRM free distribution chain before GoG that everyone used, it was called piracy.
valves Linux support is objectively good but it doesn’t magically undo establishing the anti consumer guidelines that now dominate the industry
Piracy also existed before (and after) steam, what’s your point?