I disagree on the “nothing but competent”. They have done things like left critical zero click RCEs open for years without patching them. https://portswigger.n

I disagree on the “nothing but competent”. They have done things like left critical zero click RCEs open for years without patching them. https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/valve-belatedly-fixes-steam-gaming-platform-rce-vulnerability https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/valve-belatedly-fixes-ste... People who have left valve often report that the organization is extremely dysfunctional. https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-organizing-utopia-6d32d329ecdb https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-... From where I’m standing, Valve looks like a company cursed by success. They have the advantage of controlling the world’s biggest PC game distribution platform (an advantage that is self-sustaining due to network effects), and as such have a fountain of near infinite money. This allows them to run an extremely inefficient organization without suffering the consequences that most companies would.