I am disappointed in some of the reactions this !! proposal !! has received, with some people apparently reading it in the most uncharitable way. It was a proposal that tried to address technical problems package maintainers and release engineering is facing, not some conspiracy to break the “gaming use case”.
Steam itself isn’t the issue, it’s all the 32bit games. They could’ve done this move ages ago but didn’t because if steam runs, games have a chance of running.