How is it “virtually a requirement”? Nothing is stopping any devs from selling their games elsewhere, but most of them see the advantages that steam brings to the consumers and don’t bother trying to compete. If steam was buying up publishers and forcing exclusivity then that would absolutely be monopolistic behavior, but they are just beating the competition by being better.

I’m sure this was posted to floatplane though, considering they upload all of their videos there

Yes.

Not saying that there’s nothing wrong with microplastics or PFAS, but keep in mind there’s survival bias at play here.

If you don’t use it then how is it a big deal if it’s monitored?