Proton is already better than most native ports. I play at least half of the games in my library that do have native ports using Proton anyway, because either t

Proton is already better than most native ports. I play at least half of the games in my library that do have native ports using Proton anyway, because either the native port simply doesn't work, it is less performant (common even for developers who used cross platform engines like Unity) or more buggy, or the Windows version has had content updates released that were never included in the Linux port. Proton is also essential for all of the games that already exist and that will never be ported to Linux. Any incentive to produce native ports for future games is not a replacement because (a) not every developer will take the bait, and (b) people will always still want to play old games. Linux purists will always seem to argue against Proton on some philosophical ground but the idea that the ecosystem was in a better place before it just seems absurd. You can now quite often play your whole Steam library on Linux, pretty seamlessly. There is just no comparison to the situation a few years ago. As a Linux gamer, what I want is to play all the games that I want to play. What I do not want is to waste my time with platform politics. 'Dealing with' the 'hacks on hacks' is already largely irrelevant, because mostly Proton just works.