It's not bizarre at all. Pirated games are available to everyone and pirated means DRM free, so those games lose value. Meanwhile games with DRM aren't available to everyone (paid games at least), so they become exclusive, more of a prestige thing to own.

They are the same games, but scattered around. I don't like having things in multiple places. I have GOG games, I have Origin and Uplay games as well. But it's nuisance that I have to install whole launcher just to play Assassin's Creed on Uplay, even though I have it on Steam or The Sims, WARP or some other games on Origin. I don't want to go to Humble Website and search for game I want to play. I want to have it right there, in my library. I don't like DRM-free games, because they are just like unnecessary scattering.

Yes, I can use SOME non-Steam games on Steam. I've done that. But for an instance, The Sims 3 used to work with Steam UI, then it stopped. I don't know if it works again or not. Also to have DRM-free game on Steam, I have to download it and install it first. Instead of having one button to do that right there. And what if I don't want to download a game onto my drive from Humble, but then I got that will to play that game. I have to go to Humble website, download it (where is probably limited download transfer), then install it, then add to Steam as non-Steam game etc. Unnecessary annoyance. Make so I can directly hit Install on my Steam, to download and install it and I reconsider the usefulness of DRM-free games. But right now they are not convenient to use.

And Humble Originals? If they are still that poor quality, then yes, I definitely disregard them. Humble have a lot of money but they are making beginner games like this, which solo developers can nail as well. I've seen free games made by beginner and or solo devs that are as good or even better than those DRM-frees from Humble. Also there is plenty of similar games on Steam as well. Unless those Humble Originals have higher quality that they had few years ago.

Steam is convenient to use not only because it has tons of great features no other games, launcher and platforms have. But also because it's easy to just install the game. Which is why I prefer launcher over non-DRM game in general. If not Steam, I would prefer it on Origin, maybe on Uplay, although Origin likes to crash and Uplay is generally terrible. because they can't even make the redeeming working as it should, which makes Your game crashing multiple times, because DLC is stored on wrong version of the very same game, then when they fix it for You after 3 weeks of support, then Your 90%+ save is corrupted, because You've played wrong version of the game for the frickin whole time, but You couldn't know it. And their support treats You like an idiot, when they are ones to blame. But except that, I still prefer Uplay than DRM-free game. Because I have game right in the launcher.DRM-free is not really that cool. And panicking that "one day Steam will be gone and all Your games will be lost" is ridiculous either (and some people seriously say this). This isn't happening anytime soon. I would probably die before that would happen.

Launcher games, especially Steam ones are far superior for those reasons.

Well, yes, that's what I said. There are games sold and delivered on Steam that are completely DRM-free. You can double click the .exe and they run, offline or not; you can copy them to a friend's computer and they run. DRM is optional on Steam and Steam itself is not DRM.

Of course most games on Steam do implement some form of DRM, but that was not my point.