Pirate it and get a better experience without their awful launcher

Adding to this, what would be the best way to store videos, pictures and music over a long period of time?

Ublock has it built in

Soulseek and donating to the artists you wanna support or buying merch

Can't pirate online games. Additionally I don't care if I "hurt" a giant multi million dollar company like ea or whatever by not giving them my 60 bucks. it's of course different with indie games.

Download your stuff with soulseek, sync them between devices with syncthing

Recommending vencord to bypass the stream quality nitro restrictions

Dark souls one and Morrowind (through OpenMW)

I want to steal their income they hate me and everything I stand for

I think Gabe said long ago that whenever steam died, you'd somehow be given all the games you owned still