It’s playing capitalism, but in a different way than most large (publically traded) companies. Enshittification and publically traded companies kinda go hand in hand due to shareholders’ gambling mindset. It makes companies prioritize big short term capital goals which often are at a detriment to the company’s longevity. Because Valve is a private company, their goal is the longevity and stability of the company rather than appeasing shareholders who are only invested due to gambling money into the company.

Tried it. It told me pretty explicitly “Joe Biden” with both Gemini 3.8 flash and via AI mode on Google search…

Article might be bait.

The goal is to make personal computing hardware so expensive that the average person cannot afford to do that. 😬