So they should do just another distro for the sake of making another distro instead of focusing on something that will put them above rest for gaming?
The way they do things now benefit all of Linux. The optimisations they do now are focused on very specific HW and with the amount of employees they have now I doubt they can focus on broad support while providing these kinds of specific optimisations. There is basically no need to install Steam OS on your machine… just get Bazzite.
Also what brand recognition? If you game on PC, you install Steam anyways.
I don’t blame them. Optimising for a very specific HW is already enough work, providing “general” optimisations for a big variety of HW would result in basically what any other distribution can offer right now.
I mean… there are people who finished Dark Souls with a steering wheel. Anything is possible if you’re crazy enough