In my experience it's pretty much the opposite, it seems to be designed for new users. The installer is very basic, you basically hit next a few times and wait for the desktop.
It's also an immutable distro, so you can't screw up the system without a lot of effort compared to a normal distro. All the apps are managed by the discover app and you're restricted to flatpaks for the most part.
It's very much an "install and go" type of distro, focused on getting you into your steam games as quick as possible. The rest of it uses some of the most newbie-friendly configurations that I know of. I basically tried it because I was tired of configuring things manually and just wanted to jump into my games without thinking about it too much.
So I set up bazzite recently to play with it, and it has steam and lutris preinstalled which is nice. I installed the heroic games launcher flatpak from the discover app just because it's been easier to set up games than lutris has been in my experience. You connect your other store accounts in the setup and you just have a list of games to click on and install, same way as you do in steam.
You can also install individual exe files in heroic pretty easily, I've had better success with games like king arthur legends rise by installing them in heroic as a custom game.
You may not need it, but you can also install ProtonUp-Qt if you need to install a specific proton version like Glorious Eggroll or something. It's another point and click app that'll do everything for you.
Depends on how much copper is in it, I guess
Why scrap it when you can turn around and sell it right back to them?
Holy shit, I need this
That's Vegas, baby!
"Ok, so how do I do it?"
"Differently."
Y'all are guns cuz of your stupid
If it's like the steam deck version, it'll be based on Arch with a bunch of steam-specific patches/configs to make games run more easily (with the added bonus of making non-steam games run pretty well too). Steam exists to sell games, and if they want to make it easier for me to play games, that's fine by me.
Not sure what a Microsoft distro would look like, but if they make a distro that'll run Xbox games with gamepass, I'd give it a shot.
Another nice bonus for either/both of those situations is that it wouldn't be too hard to incorporate those changes into other distros. That way people who want more of an "install and go" experience would have their official distros, people who like to tinker could work on importing the official code into their unofficial setup, and people who use arch btw can install it from the AUR.
This mf really said "why can't this game be more like concord"