Please don't launch SteamVR with the editor every time, it was already annoying in UE4

Update: As of UE 5, SteamVR no longer starts automatically.

Original answer:
You can disable it starting by default by editing “Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Steam\SteamVR\SteamVR.uplugin” and changing "EnabledByDefault": true to "EnabledByDefault": false.

Note that you have to do this every time you update the engine.

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