Completely. I remember consoles supposedly being "just works", but then the PS3 required a 20 minute updates whenever I turned it on. I stopped playing as many games during that period.
Without Steam I would probably not PC game.
> but then the PS3 required a 20 minute updates whenever I turned it on
I have the same experience with Steam. After not using for a few days, it begins downloading hundreds of megabytes of updates and has to restart itself before you can do anything with it.
