Yes, it can be confusing.
Just to be clear, my confusion was mainly on the development side of things, I had no real experience using atomic distros before, and it was a bit fiddly at the beginning, just to get things running and establish a proper separation of development enviornments. Like I said, this was never meant to be my dev machine, but sometimes I don't feel like jumping on another laptop, so it was important for me to be able to still work with it, not that things are working for me I have no issue dealing with things.
On the game side of things, the gaming side, it's just as easy as it gets I reckon... I mean, I don't have any issues installing stuff, it's just like macOS or Windows...
I work on a Macbook Pro on my 9-5, and I also have a laptop with Windows 11 that I use a few times a year to provide support to a Windows native desktop app, and I can promise you or anybody, I love working with Linux, wether it's on Bazzite or Kubuntu, or server environments. Right now, at this point in time, it's by far the best operating system out there.