Valve is interesting. Enshitification is the standard for something like social media. Corporations are the real customer and users do creative labor to keep it valuable.

Valve flips the script. Developers struggle because they are only expected to labor. Studios don’t get the full value of their labor. They might be a huge corporation but they are a worker to valve

Worries around this seem a bit much. They are making an experimental version of the protocol so they don’t need to sit on their hands while changes are accepted. They’re not bypassing the normal process.