An extension I made that makes browsing the unholy amount of the games on sale, so much easier.

Explore? Are you actually suggesting that people should explore 16000+ games? If someone can, then they are welcome to do so, this extension isn't forced on anyone, it is option for people who don't have the time to explore 16000+ games. Also what does it matter what publishers want? Should people sacrifice their convenience just to rebel against publishers? Use score? I just told you that my extension has the option to filter out any games below any score you specify. And whatever you might say, there is still a strong correlation between popular games and quality, not an absolute, but the best indicator there is. Even userscore isn't a s good, because in a game that only very few played, the score can be very biased because the game had only a very limited exposure between people who like it, and taht not even mentioning all those games that use fake score. So not even that popularity gives a good indication about quality, it also legitimizes the userscore itself.

Do you realize what a horrible advice it is? There are tons of great games in the $1-3 territory, and there are still ton of shovelware beyond that price range, and not only greenlight ones, there are ton of publisher shovelware.