Don’t read this as a general defence of steam but I do want to correct a factual mistake: there is no forced DRM on steam.

Plenty of games are released on steam which do not rely on the steam client to be started and are in fact DRM-free. They can be backed up, and played on any machine without steam installed.

Some examples are Cyberpunk2077, the System Shock remake, Shadow tactics, and most of the devolver digital catalogue. The issue I personally have is that steam itself does not declare the difference anywhere in the store front, but at least it is always accurately catalogued on the lovely pcgamingwiki.

Forgot about steam's forced DRM on purchases.

Not a thing.

Also, are you complaining that smaller devs get a bigger cut than larger devs? That's certainly an interesting gripe...

It's easy to forget when you see the competition.

There's not steam added drm, for games that the developer didn't add drm to you van just go to the games folder and launch the executable.

For a good chunk of games without drm they're even portable, ie you can copy the game's folder to a flashdrive and run it anywhere or give people working copies.