[CppCoder]

The annoying part with Steam is, almost every time I start it, it is downloading a few hundred MB large update.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. * first of all they could reduce the patch size * second, what need is there to update a launcher this often, why not pull the required info from some online database

This thing is wasting internet traffic without any apparent good reason.

[1_player]

You probably open it pretty infrequently (or you're on the beta branch), because I open it daily and updates happen once a month if ever.

It'd be the same if you were to open Chrome once a month and it wasn't autoupdating itself in the background. Steam doesn't have an autoupdate background process like Chrome does.