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The purpose of protections against monopolies is to protect the consumer against actively unlawful or abusive business practices with no place to turn e.g. Microsoft frontloading their own software and making it difficult to opt out in the 90s.

These laws do not exist simply to break up a dominant business because it's the dominant business. Steam is an entirely optional service. Steam does not pay developers to come to Steam. Steam spends a ton of its own income into providing consumer tools that no other store bothers with. Steam uses a ton of its own income to provide servers and support hubs for developers. Steam spends a ton of its own resources to maximize consumer interaction with games that would appeal to them, acting as free exposure for developers.

Steam does everything in its power to be pro-consumer, so this endless attempt at abusing anti-monopoly laws to have it chopped up and weakened is just a blatant attempt by opposing companies to get a free leg up against something they don't want to fairly compete against.