Sweeney is quite insufferable when he cosplays as a champion of small businesses. It’s about as convincing as when Zuckerberg tried to do it to argue against app tracking transparency when he was bitching about Apple.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. I may not actually like Sweeney, but this is an actual action that benefits smaller developers and not just useless talk in this direction. Yeah, he's doing it because he wins too, but this is a "winning together" ordeal, not some matter where he's taking advantage of the little guy.
As a developer who's currently working on an indie game, this makes me almost consider putting it on Epic. Unfortunately for EGS, I'm including a multiplayer component and really don't want to split my users across different online subsystems (Steam integration and the Epic online subsystem don't talk to each other), and I am certainly not going to roll my own as a one-man-band here.
