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I disagree. They're pretty good about not shoving shovelware in your face. I don't think games should be prevented from entry to the store just because they're perceived low quality. Where would you draw the line?
A minimal level would be analyzing assets used and if more than say 90% are known free assets then block a game.
What if you have a fun game idea but aren't big into graphics? You could just use a bunch of CC-BY licensed assets.
Then find a way to purchase or otherwise create 2 out of every 10 assets you do use. You likely need some level of customization to make your idea a reality.
That's a very significant additional cost!
I feel you, I'm not denying a correlation between free assets and shovelware but why punish good quality games using free assets? Steam has a pretty generous (relatively speaking) refund policy letting you refund games you've bought in the past week that you have played for less than two hours. I feel like most games and especially shovelware games you can know if they're shit in under two hours. Better to let too many shitty games in and not risk keeping a good one out and let folks get refunds for shitty games than to potentially keep good games out because they don't meet some weird criteria they can't quite meet.