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The fun part is, unless you're doing stuff that's extremely shady, they'll basically give you as many keys as you want to sell the game externally. Of the hundreds of games in my Steam library, it's a very small fraction that have been purchased through Steam, or that they've made any money on. Their 30% is closer to a commission than a platform fee, and a 30% commission on a product that's all margin isn't unusual.
And people use Steam because they're actually way better than any other option. The "freedom" platforms like GOG can't be bothered even having a client support Linux, while Valve invested a good bit into working with community projects to make most of their (already sold about as much as they're going to) back catalogue compatible and smooth. Steam input is also, by itself, more value added than any other store, and there are several other meaningful features.