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You sound like you are wanting a Windows clone. It takes a tremendous amount of work to make Windows software run on Linux and that is before you add in stuff like companies deliberately making it hard or impossible.
Linux is different and has its own way of doing things. It is far from perfect but I think it isn't realistic to expect it to magically run stuff not built for it.
I mean, cross-platform cloud save support isn't about "a Windows clone" and has zero to do with Linux doing things differently.
Also, it is supported, just not by GoG. Which makes this excuse weirder, because presumably it's blanket deflection for anything that doesn't work until it works, at which point it becomes bragging rights. It's a weird way to evaluate how both these things work.
And it IS absolutely reasonable to expect software you need or want to work as a requirement to switch over. It's not the user's fault that the software they need doesn't work. If their needs aren't supported they're just going to use whatever supports what they need.
They mostly talked about modding. Cloud saves work on Steam. I don't know which stores support cloud saves and which don't, or which work with Linux.
This isn't most of what they complained about. They complained about modding being difficult. I somewhat agree, with things like Vortex not working easily with wine (though it can work with some effort, and needs to be running in the same prefix as the game). However, their largest complaint was just installing Steam in different ways placing the Steam folder in different locations. I think that's just a limitation of flatpak/discover/snap. However, you can create a symlink from wherever it is in whatever directory you want.
They key thing is, Linux doesn't work like Windows. A lot of their complaint (rant) was just stuff they need to get used to. It isn't wrong. They're just expecting it to be Windows, and it isn't. You have to be patient and willing to learn. That's it. They did it when they learned Windows. They just forgot about that process.