Piracy is because of price.
Read the documents from the court case against Valve, such as their email communication. Valve got to this level by extortion and bullying.
I do not buy games through Steam store, I will never buy a game directly from Valve.
For something long term like a “partner” of 5 years, is a joke of a relationship because there if there is no interest in marriage and a wedding after 5 years, it proves that at least one of the people is only wanting a good time for awhile and wants the freedom to dump the other person any day they feel like with no consequences or repercussions and move on to someone else any day they feel like it to be free and clear to cut out the other person from their life.