Monarchy only works because every competitor who tries to change something has failed.

Monarchies would as well not have been established, if they where not making better services than competitors, and when they reached power the got out of control.

Same will happen to steam, it is just how things are, it is just a matter of time, until centralised power gets abused.

Our legal framework does not protect us from this, most monopolies are not illegal in current law.

The current state of capitalism is that companies try to get good brand recognition to get support and establish their monopol position, ant then, the enshitification starts slowly.

Back to the monarchy similarity: Most monarchs had great support at the beginning or even for generations until that power gets abused.

If we have no tools against an entity that can abuse power, we have to establish those tools while we don’t need them, or it gets very hard to do something against it when it happens.