There was still reason to be excited and hopeful about the future of VR.
I'll wait to get excited if the Index is updated. And until then I'll keep using my low res low FOV first gen Vive. Exclusively to hit boxes.
You make it sound like it is all gated behind an app store now somehow. Which is not the case at all.
On my quest 2 headset, I can play games from oculus store, I can also play any steamvr/pcvr games on quest 2 (connected to the desktop PC by a cable or in wireless mode), as well as any user-built application .apk files dowloaded to my headset directly (either from the headset's web browser or transferred from PC). All on the official firmware, no jailbreaking or any special steps needed to make this work.
Not sure how this is even remotely representative of some app store gating.
But you could always make a new account and play your steam games