What do you think of Steam Direct?

People over-complicate simple things.

They should just remove self/individual publishing and only accept game from LLCs.
Opening a company is not expensive, and shows you are serious about what you’re doing; no fee would be required from Valve.
If individual cannot stabilish his own company, find a publisher, there’s dozens out there.
Kill Early Access, that is a disease that came to life with the advent of Minecraft; just… bring back shareware demos, remove Early Access.

And that’s enough to solve a ton of current problems; kind of simple, really.