[johnnyanmac]

>Hopefully when/if it becomes a problem, there will be enough Linux gamers for Linux to be a real consideration, even if this consideration is no more than targetting a specific version of WINE or Proton.

Hopefully. Microsoft has been really good with Backwards compatibility on both their PC and gaming console, so that's probably part of why people don't seem to worry as much about this. But if they were ever going to do their equivalent of Python 3, or even go as far as a new architecture like Apple... it sounds like rough times on Linux due to a dependency that (IMO) shouldn't have existed.