Maybe gamers don't see that because there really IS no benefit for gamers, by and large?
Granted, in a few cases, the publisher/devs lowered the price of the game, which is great for gamers. In the large majority of cases, the price remained exactly the same, so then it's only beneficial for them.
Which leads to the nebulous argument that "Well, if devs keep more of the money, that keeps them in the black and keeps them making new games!"
Sure. If that was how it worked. But the DEVS aren't seeing an extra fucking dime out of this money, their PUBLISHER is. (a few self-published indies notwithstanding.) And do you think that publisher is going to keep that dev around because they now get an extra 18% of the split? Fuck no. That dev still gets fired, and that money still goes to the fucking shareholders.
And in the meantime, Epic has fucking trash security (Give us your credit card number!), no fucking support (oh, did you game disappear? Sucks to be you, buy it again!), and no features on their client. (You're paying the same price, why would you expect even some rudimentary features?!) Ye Gods, I'm having trouble breathing from all the benefits I'm getting from it!
Don't piss on my face and tell me it's fucking raining, GamesIndustry.shill.
Again, if any individual has no problem with these issues around the Epic store, more power to them. But stop the horseshit rhetoric that just because it doesn't matter to YOU it shouldn't matter to anyone.