It’s a bribe by any other name, but I suspect it’s probably still worthwhile for Apple.

Indeed and this is part of the problem as well - even if Valve magically developed some almost perfect Linux anticheat solution, implementing it is still more effort than just continuing to ban Linux users.

This - I have an RG351P and I honestly love it for playing GBA and even SNES games.

I have a Steam Deck as well and I feel like the two devices complement each other nicely.