This is a decision that benefits their business and it doesn't matter if they need to force you into something.
The practical effect is they are forcing you to spend more money. They win and their business partners win.
In the average case sure, in my case nope.
I currently dual boot windows 10 and Fedora with Windows 10 been strictly for gaming only.
I bought a windows 10 licence for that.
I won't buy a windows 11 license for that.
I'll game on Fedora where I can and will buy a console for everything else (and probably for the first time a PS not Xbox since I've owned every version of Xbox but the current one).
I wish more game developers either provided a native port, or at least made sure the anticheat system wasn't tripped when running in /Proton.
Big companies like Microsoft make billions not because they sell lots of good products and services that everyone buys, quite contrary. They sell shitty products and services and force them to buyers making sure to extract every single penny you have even when they are not providing value for you anymore.