What you don’t remember where the armies of bot accounts it brought into Steam. People would pay for votes and get scams and money grabs greenlit while indies couldn’t even get a foot on the door. YouTube channels made series about playing the shovelware and mocking the system. There’s a reason it was done away with.

Greenlight saw one of the biggests floods of shovel ware in Steam’s history. The store hasn’t actually recovered since.