Although Steam is easy to use, I find it incredibly frustrating and I expect OP will too. It needs an internet connection, it constantly updates the Steam client, and it seems impossible to turn off updates for games. You should expect that at least once a week you will have to wait several minutes to over an hour to launch a game. This is especially true for games that you play rarely, because there will always be am update waiting next time you try to play. You may have better results if you have a faster Internet connection.

In addition, I found the lack of control to be very frustrating. I don’t want to have to fight a separate client whenever I want to play a game. I very much miss when you could just install the game from a CD and it worked. (although I don’t miss how often games used to crash tbf)

For casual gamers, Steam is very easy to use and it mostly just works. It’s also nice having so many games in one place. But it’s not the right thing for me