The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.
It’s more of a barrier for people who are pirating media, not the ones consuming that pirated media.
Don’t they mostly download it directly from streaming platforms these days, skipping the display and its connector altogether…?