Steam's new low game listing rules have led to some changes...

[Great Rumbler]

That argument kind of undercuts your complaint, though, that hidden gems will get lost because Steam lets too many games get released. If it's easy to just pop over to the game's website, Amazon, or some smaller service like Desura, than you could have just as easily found the game on Steam, as that implies that you already know about the game to begin with. But if you don't know about it? Steam's a good place to start looking given how diverse its library is. Getting more games on Steam is not a problem, allowing some shoddy garbage [like Air Control] to slip through the cracks is a problem, though, I agree with you there. Even less stringent control should be able to spot something this obviously bad and keep it off, but it's not like Steam has suddenly become clogged with cheap, half-finished, nearly-unplayable garbage [or at least segregates it from finished games with the Early Access section].