No need for the hostility: )
It's more I can't be bothered to go through the hassle of installing things through a separate website. I loved CM Normandy, it's still installed on my pc but I never launch it anymore because it's not in my regular launcher and I actually forget I have it most of the time. So I learned my lesson and not buying things I'll forget to launch, too many games coming out, imagine if I had to do that for each I enjoy? I hop a lot from one game to another and for that Steam and the like are great to make sure they are always up to date for when you feel like playing them. Here when the upgrades come out I found it too complicated (and expensive) of a system to go through with it.
I don't critize others who are fine with the current system, I do think the game is unique enough to draw attention but I recognize it'd be quite a cultural shift for the dev hence my "I hope you will change your mind :)", it was in no way trying to make a useless ultimatum. Just wishful thinking on my part.
I just know that I'd buy all the latest installments (maybe not all together day 1 because that would be quite expensive but I'd eventually have them all for sure, I pretty much have every wargame on steam already) if there were on steam, origin or even the egs and I know a couple people who would do the same. Plus steam allow gifting and I gift a lot of games every year so I know this would be on my "want others to discover this" list but I'm aware that's not my 200-300 bucks that will change anything, just supposing I'm not the only one out there who would be willing to buy from a well installed platform rather than a specific website, now I can't know if we are enough out there to make it profitable for the devs.