I mean, I have. Spider-Man 2 crashes on boot for me. No second launcher there. Ironically this is the game where they took out the obligation to sign in to PSN. Go figure.

I mean, sure, they could take out all the features that are crashing, but my problem isn't with the rendering features, my problem is my game doesn't work.

You are conflating having a bug in the launcher with the launcher being the problem. This just doesn't follow. What is a problem is having a gamebreaking bug in a game that you're selling to the public.

I'm not gonna repeat myself any further. You get my point, you're fixating on this to make a fanboyish argument for Steam, I get it. No need to keep going around this loop.