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Using free software has its downsides as well. Like, bugs all over the place that require you to dig into the source code even just to understand what went wrong. Also, glacier-slow updates, since everyone has a day job.

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That is an inaccurate generalization of free software. Also, free software has the most important advantage off all: giving you freedom.

How many times have you had a game-breaking bug? Why are a good amount of folks still on .NET then? That last point is just hollow. Freedom from what? Oppression?

In an actively maintained project, that bug could be fixed in a day (or at least within the week). In an actively maintained proprietary game, it could go out in a patch pretty quickly. In an abandoned proprietary game, the bug will never be patched. In an abandoned open source game, there's at least a chance you might be able to fix the bug yourself.

And that's one part of the freedom. Open source software will live as long as people are interested in it, while proprietary software dies very definitively.

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