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That kind of software is often a pain in the butt to set up or requires weird stuff you shouldn't have to do like compiling code from source. They could easily have a button that just switches to XInput/DualSense mode on the controller, or acts as a standard HID device with some special steam controller sauce that applications could start supporting directly. But I think they just want to tie people to Steam in a vendor lock-in sort of way as another counter to other online stores like Epic (not that they're even competing given how bad their software is).