Even etsy creators advertise their more profitable products instead of things that barely sell. Apart from the top banner on the store page everything steam advertises is based on demand, calculated by sales numbers and whishlists, and relevance to your library.

Even decentralized platforms like Lemmy operate under this exact principal, a decentralised gamestore would show you the same games as steam does.

If you want to see everything, you are free to set your steam store to new releases. Have fun sifting trough hundreds of cash grabs and “garbage” first time passion projects to find a single interesting game.

It isn’t too surprising that some things get routed over general domains that the company already owns. Probably the facebook domain since they bought WhatsApp way before they rebranded to meta.

This for once isn’t anything malicious. Dunno if I would call it best practice, but they probably don’t intend to unbundle WhatsApp in the near future.

I’m not even sure what that joke could’ve been

Educational entertainment, also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment

The word has been around since 1973 and is included in many dictionaries. If you want to correct someone, at least inform yourself beforehand.