I disagree. I don't want Valve to focus their service aspects to police content quality. Although Steam has some stinkers that has retained a lot of popularity, I do not see the validity in the people proposing that steam is like a mobile shitshow.
99% of mobile games are garbage. Their curation is terrible. The most popular games on Steam are not garbage: steam/stats . You got a healthy dose of genres, you got stable populations, you got franchises, and you even see retentation across multiple installments.
There is a good dose of new games, and you can see, when a new update is coming out for a game, the player count increases significantly.
This tells us that a lot of steam users know where to go and what to play when something is happening.
The weird omission I can recall is Knight Online. It has sometimes crawled up to 20,000+ players playing during peak, but this is apparantly bots that is inflating it. It's not a common problem.
Early Access shit, youtubers tenacity towards garbage open world survival games and the crowdfunding debacle are things that have to sort itself out as peoples taste change. We're still figuring these things out. Valve doesn't need to police or moderate or "fix" this.
People will be get over survival games. We just have to hang in there and the fad will change to something else.
My big fear is that if Valve starts investing a lot into their service sector and take up a lot of additional responsibilities it will mean higher costs and less value for the free services, sharing and consumer value as well as less sales, and higher profit cuts they snap from developers.
I want them to improve the UI and UX aspects. The overlays needs to be more snappy, there needs to be better responsive animations. There needs to be a better level of resolution independent GUI features that lets you scale.
Curation is pretty good. It's not spotify, but the main problem is the tags. They are not easy enough. I want to search for female protagonist, story rich and good soundtrack all at once.
Your user home screen is too busy, and there are too many hidden features hidden away in sub sections. The way the browser windows open inside the steam overlay is annoyng. The way the video player is slow and has delay is annoying.