Yes.

I don't remember Epic ever having any features beyond a grid of games to pick from.

comparing steam and epic is kind of like comparing good restauraunt to some seedy fast food place where cook sometimes spits in the food out of spite and you always get dirty plates.

Epics "free games" thing reminds me of a candy van. You gain more by staying away as who knows what the launcher does on your computer, they do have to make their money from somewhere and selling harvested user information would be quite neat way to make some money as a final fuck you if they start to go under. There is probably a reason they dont seem to care about making better platform.

I have one just for the free games. Load it all through heroic. Got hundreds, bought zero. And some of em are pretty decent. I've seen outer worlds pop up twice on it. I think I may have gotten satisfactory from it as well. Guardians of the Galaxy, river city girls one and two, deaths door. But that's the only reason.

Most features are within the embedded web view, though. Valve has frequently added or tweaked features without ever pushing a Steam client update.

By skeezy do you happen to mean that it looks like the Comic Sans of game distribution?

You are literally not missing much, because yes, Steam has so many more features than Epic.

In some ways but honestly a good chunk of steam's features are bloat and unnecessary. Like 99% of the community features.