I largely agree with your comment, but this arguement is ignoring tons of context. EGS was using monopolistic practices like paid exclusives right out of the gate, to the degree where they were paying devs to pull games off of Steam even after people bought copies on there.

Hell, when they did it to Metro: Exodus it was so close to launch the devs had to put stickers on all of the physical copies to say they contained keys for EGS instead of Steam. They even pulled Kickstarter games that were promised to be available on Steam.

On top of the EGS rarely supported their store. It took them over 2 years to add a shopping cart. That's something a competent software developer could do in a couple of days. You'd think a company shelling out millions of dollars for exclusive releases would be willing to spend $1-2k in developer's time to implement something that almost every other online storefront has.

Let's also not forget that Tim Sweeny (Epic's CEO) is a major proponent against using Linux. Instead, he tries to push his store's users to Windows, which is run by another monopoly.

EGS had a chance to compete against Ste with the free games, but they shot themselves in the foot by starting out in a way that pissed a lot of people off and continuing with yet more screw ups.