I know but if you pay them with your card it might be linked to you, as we saw what happened with proton

Make sure to buy it through a proxy, like f.e. https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en . That way they will never be able to link it to you.

I have a 22 year old steam account, played every cod on there, every decent multiplayer shooter that came out the past 22 years, not once did I get a false ban on that account. Cheaters love to lie. Vac has always reverted false vac bans if there was one that happened to people.

Yes it does ( did it like 5 weeks ago)

Most competitive multiplayer games are free nowadays: cs2, fortnite, apex, warzone, pubg, rainbow six siege are all free. You are not forced to buy any skins to be any better in the game. Unfortunately for the ones that haven’t gamed that much over the years, the skill level is insanely high in most. But there’s a thing called skill-based matchmaking in most anyways. Free games adds the downside of people smurfing/ cheating. But I would say most of those games try to combat it even though it ain’t easy to do that (except for cs2). Singleplayers from indie devs are king rn and usually the cost is around 30$, or just don’t buy on release and wait a year or 2 for insane price drops.

I don’t really understand the complaint tbh. The only game that fits your complaint is CoD multiplayer.