No - what part of my post are you interpreting like that? I'm happy to edit if I'm giving the wrong impression. I just want to know how worried I need to be about my own gaming PC at the moment.
This is the part that made me think you were defending it. My apologies for misunderstanding.
Not sure if you play on Linux at all, but a good way to start is to run Steam in firejail. It isolates that environment from the rest of the OS.