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TIL Godot is on Steam. Huh, will you look at that.
What does that even mean? People using gui tools?
Professional game developers do not want their game engines to automatically update because when you upgrade engine versions things usually break. This happens in Unity, Godot, Unreal, and every other engine or framework I've seen in games. For big changes, this is inevitable. So professional game developers download the engine directly from the provider and not a service that will automatically update the engine version from under your project.
I don't even know why Godot is on steam. Probably to gain more discoverability and popularity.
Iirc godot uses beta branches and semver, so the only updates you get are the ones that dont break anything.