Just use Arch in a Distrobox on Fedora or openSUSE. That’s the best of both worlds.
too much spyware
That’s just capitalist propaganda. There is no spyware! That’s just innocent telemetry!
I bought a used one. Best of both worlds. 5 years of support for a good price.
Not only the browser. The whole app was built with CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
It used to be only the browser/store. Now it’s the whole app.