do you know why the government and police will not negotiate with terrorists and hostage-takers? because if you give those people what they want, you give people incentive to commit such actsIndustry actors only cares about their bottomline though. Having their sympathy or not is irrelevant.
for similar reason, some developers may feel compelled to stop releasing games on steam if a portion of its userbase starts acting like babies and pirate a game just because it's exclusive on a store they don't like. (it would be an even easier decision to make if epic were to pay you handsomely for doing so.)
the point of disappointed steam users would be better made if they just abstained from the game completely, over resorting to piracy. (this is probably the course of action chosen by most people who don't want to support egs, but it takes just a few asshole pirates to ruin it for everyone else)