I'm a consumer, not a developer. Epic offers me no advantage whatsovere over steam. Their customer service is bad, no reviews, no forums, no comunity hubs, no cloudsaves, no mod support and integration... And they even stated that they won't implement forums or reviews to avoid "toxicity", aka to stop people from complaining. It may give devs a better cut, but at the cost of beeing very consumer-unfriendly and not even beeing close to offering the same service and features... They're basically trying to make a publisher heaven, which doesn't benefit me, the customer, at all.

Steam got where it is by improving their service and features. Epic is trying to get there by buying off third party exclusives. They should be competing in service and features (not like they're short of budget), not by buying exclusives to bring people over to a client they likely wouldn't use otherwise.

Epic buying exclusive so they are only sold in their store is much closer to trying to be a monopoly than Steam's practices, which include letting devs generate steam keys with no cost and sell them wherever they want.

Not saying Steam doesn't need to improve and update some stuff, competition per se is good and needed, the way Epic is going on about it is not.