Why does Steam have such a problem with this?

Purchasing a game to run the data files in another program seems very legitimate to me, especially if you have an OS that isn't windows. why would this be considered bad or unethical? Purchasing it sounds like the most ethical thing you can do, a lot of people wouldnt even do that.

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it's not considered bad or unethical, it just means they won't offer you support in case you can't make it work, since it's not the intended way to play the game

Doesn't sound like they have a problem with it, they just don't offer support. If you buy Quake on Steam and play it on Quakespasm, then run into an issue, do you expect Steam support to be able to help you with your Quakespasm problem? They can't offer support for things outside their platform that they have no connection to. Nobody is saying it's wrong or unethical, just that you're on your own if you can't make it work.

well on some OSs you literally cant even download the files at all

Are you ESL/retarded? It says support won't help you with problems caused by emulating, it doesn't say a single fucking thing about it being bad or unethical.

if you buy a cucumber, and use it as a dildo, and hurt yourself, the store is not legally responsible, considering you did not use it for its intended purposes.
they're just covering theirs asses. haha.

food ANALogy.

Don’t worry Chang, just try another thread.

That's kind of shitty, but I understand why they'd do that. It doesn't make sense for their store to let you download a program that cannot work. Normalfags would be way too confused about why they can "install" something but can't run it.

>it just means they won't offer you support in case you can't make it work
But they don't do that anyway. Valve's support is so lacking they've even been taken to court multiple times because it fails to meet the minimum standards set by the law.

because steam doesn't troubleshoot fucking emulators for you, jackass