Perhaps they fixed it, but I experienced random crashes at least once an hour.

For most games. Tried Witcher 2 on Linux a few months ago, what an unstable mess.

Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?

Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don’t like the product/service, don’t buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.

You are joking. But https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ is real.