Well, not for me. I didn't pay all that extra money to have my GPU and monitor do worse color reproduction. It took long enough for Windows to get their ass in gear for modern display support, I'm not keen on waiting another five years for it elsewhere.

And for as much as "having some level of support" is an improvement, it still doesn't work properly on my setup, so Linux is just broken for me, even under the right flavor of KDE.

I do agree with you that I see Bazzite getting there sooner in terms of just widespread hardware support. What I see SteamOS doing first is pointing at specific hardware configs, or rather to specific prebuilt boxes and saying "this will just work". And, you know, actually mean it, not like when Linux advocates say something will just work and then it doesn't.

I think that's a bigger deal than most of the Linux community likes to acknowledge, but I also don't think the Linux community would have a big issue with the idea of SteamOS being paired to specific hardware and then slowly trading reliability for flexibility by one step through Bazzite and by multiple steps by adopting Proton and maybe Gamescope in other distros. That seems like a... very Linux state of affairs.