I don't doubt what you say but there is a whole other audience that don't care, want or need it to be on Steam. I'd assume the crossover between open-source fans and Steam isn't much... and commercial success isn't the focus.
That's a good point. I haven't bought a physical game for a few years now and I'm certainly not buying anything digital close to full price. The majority is probably under £10.
Ridiculous amount of game crashes and lost saves were the big issues so I refunded the game. Overall I found 23 much more enjoyable but I agree that the depth just isn't there to make it last.
There is already a yearly release for F1 so I'm not surprised if the manager game gets cancelled. From what I hear this year's game is very buggy and unbalanced, even more so than usual...
It died with Dreamcast but the console was certainly not the cause.