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Silksong also didn’t presale and by extension had no way to early download. I think they didn’t want data miners and spoilers.
It wasn’t actually the download infrastructure that crashed steam, it was the payment APIs (my cart didn’t work for a full 2 1/2 hours!)
Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.