We can sit here and argue this out for the next decade but short of SE releasing active player counts by platform, neither side of the discussion has proof of anything other than the number of players logging into FFXIV through Steam has changed since Endwalker released.
Except you are the one pretending that they are different, the burden is actually on you, not me, gamers are gamers, be it on steam or any other pc platform, you can stop with that, it makes no sense.

You don't have any proof that those who don't log into FFXIV via Steam have the same gaming habits as those who do anymore than I have proof that they don't. Neither side has proof of anything here other than fewer players are logging to FFXIV via Steam now than when Endwalker launched
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Once again, burden is on you, because it makes absolutely 0 sense, gamers are gamers.

Just for the heck of it, I went to Steam to check the user reviews for Endwalker. If so many users of the Steam client have stopped playing because they feel the expansion is bad, I was expecting to see a fairly large number of negative reviews showing up in their graphs over the last few months.
Really dude ? Lol, going by reviews now ? talk about grasping for straws

Anyway, there's some proof that the number of players unhappy with the game aren't as high as some claim, coming from the same source that is supposedly showing players are unhappy and quitting. We're all free to interpret however we want. It still makes no difference.

SE is going to do what they want with the game.
Thanks, the steam chart numbers prove otherwise, but you can have your echo chamber of toxic positivity if you want, that's fine with me, I will respond to it and prove you wrong with actual statistics though, something you are unable to provide because you have nothing to back your claims.