Old games that have been broken on Windows for decades just work, there’s a wealth of tweaking you can do, all your controllers will work, the games will usually run better, all tweaks are sandboxed and only affect individual games, it fixes a vast expanse of issues that games can cause to an OS like screen tearing, windowing, broken resolutions, alt-tabbing, broken suspend, I mean..
Sure some newer games have issues, but those are almost entirely drm and anti-cheat related. At which point: