Some apps can disable it, I think Discord does so people don’t get tricked into pasting random scripts into the console

I hope Google dusts off Project Ara one day. That looked like a cool concept that’s only now being made into a reality to some extent.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this had something to do with the impending Microsoft buyout, seeing as they’ve been putting all their PC games on Steam for a while. That being said, I also wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft starts moving away from both Steam and Battle.net once the deal closes in favor of the Xbox launcher now that they have a ton of potential exclusives for it.