I really hope the (eventual) rise in popularity of the Steam Deck will somehow convince developers and publishers to dial it back a little with these goddamn useless launchers and clients.
I guess the launcher makes sense during EA for Larian to help gather metrics on how players interact with the game, problems they encounter, crash reports etc. The launcher is optional, though (i.e. you can launch the game without it).
But speaking of Steam Deck, I would love to see more games supported natively for Linux. Wine and Proton help a lot but I still hope that there will be a Linux version of Baldur's Gate 3 eventually. From what I know, the Stadia version needs to run on Linux servers so my hope is that would make it easier to launch a Linux version of the game at some point.
