People that just complain without a better improvement in mind
As I said, you ignored it once, and twice.
I’d argue that hackers are more important to valve
They aren’t more important to Valve; they are more important to people like you. And Valve just tries to figure out the best for everybody. Albeit badly.
They just now announced a family sharing feature
Go do some research before claiming such things. It has been a thing for many many years. And as far as I know, they simply reinforced their ruling on bans. My argument already existed for many years, but is now even more true.
You’re the one arguing for an alternative that could increase the number of hackers
Hackers buy and sell accounts for a few euros. On top of their €20/month cheats this is nothing. Most people getting VAC bans are the stupid ones trying out free hacks. Which mostly are kids. Who would have thought?
VAC is meaningless for the real hackers. And an account being used for hackers is easily spotted compared to an account from a parent sharing it to their kid. You keep asking for my solution, but my solutions are so obvious it would take a stupid person to not think of them. Hey here’s one: “investigate the main accounts manually”. I thought such ideas would not require a triple digit IQ to be considered obvious.
You have lost absolutely nothing - nothing has been “ruined”.
They already had family sharing where a ban upon the main account could have been contested. You could at least ask them to consider the age or stupidity of the person or family member using your library.