Is the Steam launcher slow for anyone?

It starts really slow, at least on Mac. And that’s after Valve was dragged into updating it for ARM. Before that it was sort of ok by the sheer power of Apple Silicon but battery suffered greatly. Launching Steam is very slow regardless of platform.

I guess initial launch can take a while to load. I'll agree with that.

Not slow enough to impact anything I'm doing though.

Most PC gamers have Steam open at startup since that’s where almost all of their games are and they can update in the background. If you’re an underdog like EGS you’re going to be used as a secondary option and not loading at autostart so that load time is more important. It’s funny that Epic admits this was vibe coded yet it performs better than Steam.