Because technology advanced a tiny bit and it does make more sense.

Even if it dies now, it will come back with even better hardware.

Your statement sounds like, “why did they release the iPhone, there are already PDAs”

I could imagine that games with invasive anti cheats are a reason.

As someone who played a couple, i just stopped playing them.

I’m a little sad they did this, i hoped that the pressure on the game devs would rise so they support Linux, oh well.