Well Valve couldn't veto an update(about to go live) with the way the new system is set up, but I agree they should implement a rollback feature for patches(If one chooses/needs to rollback to a prior version for some reason.) & keep new patches optional.

The next step would be letting the community do the (unofficial) patching through Steam workshop. Or has this happened with Skyrim?

We'd still need a rollback feature or else people would have to delete and redownload/reinstall games when they wanted to change patch versions.

Publisher can roll back update via Steam if they find its broken - Shogun 2 has such update and it took only around 10-15 minutes to roll back to previous version.

I'd rather they allow users to do it themselves whenever they want so they don't have to wait for Steam/publishers to do it.

Very good news. Updates to indie games sometimes were halted for a long time, only because of Valve's approval process.

It's nice to hear that Steam is evolving in some very good ways. First Greenlight, now this :-)

That is certainly how GOG is handling a lot of their support...
I've got this movie of me and two transsexual hookers. Yet Steam has not approved it for some reason. I guess I should have taken that gimp too, ah well, maybe next week.

Some music to celebrate this change in Steam's policies(It would be better held off until they allowed users to keep their games forever[Even after/if Steam ever went out of business/etc.]/play them without the client, but whatever.).

Hallelujah

Well, they left a promise in their TOS (probably just to avoid lawsuits) that they will make games playable without steam in unlikely event of Valve winding up.

Unless Valve only allows games to be sold on Steam if the devs/publisher agree that their games can be separated from the client upon Valve's/Steam's closure, I don't think Valve can realistically make that kind of agreement with it's users beyond maybe applying such statements to it's own IP.

Yeah, sorry, but I don't buy into that "forcing to patch" BS I hear in regards to Steam so often.

In the twenty years of PC gaming I always used the newest patch available. Apart from the fact that you can't "cherry pick" patches and always only avoid the newest one, there simply was never an instance were I didn't want to patch a game.

And GOG is also forcing you the newest patch when they update their installers. Sure, you might have the old installer backed up, but not many do this.