This statement is whack, you're claiming that the deck, which functions as a glorified handheld laptop, only has more games than a Nintendo handheld because of... scams and inappropriate methods??? Couldn't be that PC games have existed since 1970s, right?
The 'steam deck verified' list the article quotes barely scratches the surface of the amount of games which work, games outside of the steam store function flawlessly 75% of the time with another 15% after 10 minutes of tweaks.