You may be interested in reading this post about the process of packaging Steam.

tl;dr: It’s mostly an annoyance reserved for packagers to deal with. Dynamically linked executables can be patched in a fairly universal fashion to work without FHS, so that’s the go-to approach. If the executable is statically linked, the package may have to ship a source patch instead. If the executable is statically linked & close-source, the packagers are forced to resort to simulating an FHS environment via chroot.

I’m a plaintext git patch sent via email and lost in the maintainer’s spam folder

I’m 26, which makes me extremely old and not at all out of place here. Seriously, I could die any minute now! Not for any particular reason – just too old, you see…

I’ve got an anilist on the off-chance that anyone wants to check my weeblord credentials. I think I’ll flaunt the established <2000s paradigm and say that my favorite vintage anime is Steins;Gate. A bona fide classic, IMO.