Valve is a massively predatory company like Apple or Google or Microsoft. And just like those companies they have gargantuan public relation teams in house to control their image on social media. And release just enough content and good news each year to allow their sycophants to ignore their evil and sick behaviors. Make a Half Life VR game and ignore the ultra predatory gambling and loot chests marketed to children and addicts.
Valve is nothing compared to Apple/Google/Microsoft. Their total equity is less what those corporations make in a year, because they're a private company so they're not chasing profits for the sake of profits, which is why they have what you would call a monopoly. Because their rivals, such as EA, Ubisoft, Epic Games and CD Projekt are public companies, their decisions are dictated by the investors, and it leads to them shooting themselves in the foot to appease their overlords instead of their clients. Valve has no such obligations, which is why Steam remains this titan with a "monopoly", because the competition is retarded.
And uhh, games marketed to children? Team Fortress 2 had to be censored in Germany and I can attest from experience that my mom hated me playing it when I was a kid, and I had to mod out the blood, gore and death screams so she would let me play it. It was very much a game out of my age class but the age guidelines are just that, guidelines, and I downloaded it for free from the web. None of Valve's games are targeted to kids, and if by "addicts" you mean gambling addicts then they get drawn to anything that has random chances. Just look at BossmanJack, he got hooked on OSRS PvP because it was all random chances. Are you going to say that OSRS PvP was marketing to addicts?
Valve currently dropped all support for Win7 and in a few years will likely prevent access to Steam with Win10.
For the last fucking time, that's on Google for dropping support for Win 7, 8 and 8.1 in Chromium. You want to complain, complain about Valve basing the only way to access their games on a 3rd party web browser instead of whipping up something independent.
Look, I get it, you want to be mad at every corporation under the sun, but not a single company under the sun would bend over backwards to be super duper friendly and pro-consumer just to appease complainers like you because that's not what makes money and that's not what keeps a company afloat. And by comparison Valve is the least evil and least predatory corporation out of all the ones you've mentioned and out of all the ones you've mentioned.
Microsoft forces LGBT politics into Minecraft, and the console/mobile versions of it have a marketplace that's designed to rip off parents with kids that just tap the big glowy "buy" button. I have never seen Valve do anything on that level of predatory. Maybe instead of complaining about Valve not being 100% perfect, because not a single company in the history ever was nor ever will, focus for once on what they're doing right compared to the rest, and appreciate that Valve isn't like EA or Ubisoft. But maybe you'd like that because you'd have so much to complain then, and I don't think you even play video games if you're so focused on pointing out Valve's flaws you're exaggerating shit.
