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I don't get this trend of finding someone identifying legitimate problems with the best available option and trying to have discussion on a discussion website and drowning them with "B-b-but everyone else is worse! If we didn't have [lesser evil] then we would surely have [greater evil]! Why do you want [greater evil]???"
Being closed source and using DRM aren't necessarily problems. In Valve's case, they aren't at all. Valve's DRM doesn't hurt performance, and doesn't stop you from playing their games offline.