In the long term it might have a bad effect on the market, as it further helps to cement Microsoft’s control over multimedia APIs, since game developers now have little incentive now to target anything other than DirectX…
You’re not wrong, but people have been saying this for >20 years. We’re living in that future.
It came out in 2007… And iirc the steam client is still 32bit? Games were slow to adopt 64 bit.