No no, it’s a lot better, you’re kidding yourself.

There’s absolutely no obligation to be penny pinching for public companies, the leadership is obligated to act in the best interests of the company but that’s about it.

The motivations and reward schemes may be very different, public company CEO may be incentivised to maximise share price for instance and that may attract the kind of psychopath that will try and maximise share price by penny pinching - equally I don’t think anyone could make a serious argument that being more like Steam would be acting against the best interests of a company selling games.

That was rather my point, public or private company doesn’t really matter much compared to the leadership.

Oh, didn’t notice the part you specified gamers

I don’t know about you but I start an entirely new FOSS project every time I need some functionality that doesn’t come with the base OS.

You say that, but spaceX wasn’t a public company 3 weeks ago either.