It looks like they miss out on the Steamworks features “(e.g. online multiplayer, achievements, leaderboards, trading cards, etc.)” if they opt not to use their DRM, so I can understand why the vast majority of devs would want to use it.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

Tbf that is exactly what the Republicans want

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I think most people reading it understood that was their point though.