People praise Steam, but it’s one of the most bloated, unnecessarily convoluted examples of feature creep on my machine, and it always wants to run in the background and check for updates. Even when I do remember to exit properly, it takes several seconds of thinking before it closes. I’ve resorted to using task manager instead.
Almost any launcher is less annoying to me than Steam, but then I’ve never been one to use or want the various social aspects. I wish there were a lite version for people who just want to use it to buy and play games.