The Steam client is so bloated at the point it takes 40% of my computer's resources, leaving little to no resources for the actual game I want to play, and thus

The Steam client is so bloated at the point it takes 40% of my computer's resources, leaving little to no resources for the actual game I want to play, and thus making the gameplay experience feel worse than it should. That is one of the reasons I would pirate or try to find a workaround to download the games from Steam and run them outside.