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some native titles are absolute ass and it leaves room for people to even disable wine support because you already have native (even though native sucks ass)
Example? CS2.
Recently installed Total Warhammer 3 which I didn't notice had a native Linux client. Multiplayer didn't work. Textures never loaded in. Loading times ass.
Switched to Proton and everything worked flawlessly.
Have seen other games where Linux native got neglected to the point where proton is just better experience lol
Many times I have enabled compatibility mode in Steam to run the Windows version, which actually works.