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While I understand and empathize with your dislike of proprietary blobs (fuck you, NVIDIA), every game is a huge blob unless you're playing FOSS games exclusively.
That's true. And that's exactly why I give zero trust to any executable that I don't have the source code of. But there is a huge difference between running kernel level proprietary software and user space apps, which are easily at least sandboxable.
True, but most people don't sandbox their games, and while a userspace binary can't usually get root privileges, it doesn't need it to exfiltrate their summer holiday pics or health bulletin.
A good first step to mitigate this is to use separate gaming and serious accounts.