You are in the small minority then, because the rest of us joined steam because our Valve games wouldn't work without it.
Origin is in the exact same state Steam was when it was first released--a lockdown environment being forced upon us to play EA/Valve games. Steam is no better just because it has more third-party support; the same thing EA is adding to Origin now.
Either you hate both of them, or hate neither of them, because everything else is hypocrisy.
steam didnt bother me when it came out. I had it because of counterstrike I always thought it was pretty awesome because it meant no more holding on to a CD and losing it or something.. you know how many diablo 2 and sc1 cd keys ive lost in my day?!?! I always felt like steam was an awesome and its gotten a lot better with re-iteration.
Origin just started so its hard to compare the two and it only sells EA games so its obviously lacking.
The thing is.. I only want one application to contain all my games and it isnt origin. Its kind of like looking at wow player and being like how the fuck could you still play this game? they play it because its had years of re-iteration to continue to make it better so new mmos with less functionality dont hold up
tl;dr fuck origin steam is better