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In this case, between Valve winning and Microsoft winning, a Valve win is good for consumers.
Valve winning is less awful for consumers.
Valve is still a multi billion dollar company, who had to be forced into compliance with lawsuit and regulation to get even the most basic shit like refunds for bad/broken/scam games.
Valve does have a better history
Those are two orthogonal things, but they do both point towards Valve being the better choice between the two. But if there were a Valve vs. Microsoft duality where the choice that's better for anyone that's not the two of them is to side with Microsoft, I'd be disappointed with Valve, but I'd choose the Microsoft route.
I don't think that's likely, as Valve have repeatedly made choices that are better for the consumer even when they're not better for Valve, but I'm not ruling out the possibility.