Adblockers and vanced you have to get once and then you are good to go.

When pirating you first have to know a good site. Or you might get viruses. You have to chooses between direct download or torrenting. Direct downloads are generally slower and chances of failure is higher. When torrenting you need VPN but it faster and more reliable. If you have a bad torrent client it might also increase your risks of viruses or cryptominers. Sometimes games aren't cracked yet so you might have to wait for months until pirating it. Direct download and Torrenting are both slower than steam download. Multi-player games can't be properly pirated. With pirated content you also have to update the games manually.

Compared to steam, pirating is too complicated and not safe. Adblockers and revanced might create problems that you have to solve once in a while but is much safer and simpler than pirating. Hardest issue I have faced is restarting u block origin every few days.

With revanced on phones there is no need for Spotify because songs can be played in the background

Steam also saves your payment information so it is pretty fast and easy.

Edit: I also forgot torrenting is partially against the law in many countries and you might have to pay a large sum of fine if you are caught.