It’s not about performance for me. I’m not paying for a single player offline game that requires internet. I was around for the Spore DRM. That started with 3 activations and having to call EA for more. Even the current 5 activations per day is too restrictive, as I’ve heard changing proton version counts as an activation. If I don’t own it (yes technically you don’t steam games, but I think I could easily bypass steam protection and still play my games if it came down to it) I’m not buying it.