If Steam stops working properly, either you can’t make payments, or it doesn’t open at all, then you effectively get locked out of a world of gaming goodness.
For people who are serious about PC gaming, there really is no choice but to install Valve’s frontend. Despite efforts from Epic Games and Microsoft to carve out territory in the vast PC gaming landscape, Steam still remains the top dog with a lion’s share of up to 70 percent of the entire global desktop gaming market.