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The DRM built into steam is pretty purposely nerfed. Supposedly it is trivial to bypass, which is why many game companies put 3rd party DRM in as well. If valve dies tomorrow, it will be way easier to revive most of my steam library than anything on origin or EA whatever-its-called-this-week.

They also just have like 20 years of clear results, consumer non-hostility, and goodwill

I'd say the cd key and cd check of physical media is more anti-consumer than Steam. Of course there were third party patches to remove the cd check, but that's no different than making a way around steam drm.

I get it, I understand, but I like the product they've given and I like that it continues to improve.

inferior to digital media my ass, DRM on digital media hosing my linux partition is what pushed me to exclusively use steam and gog.