Origin "Beta"?

I'm sure the fact they have half the userbase and 1/16th of the game catalog, probably contributes to the "better servers"... FWIW.

Actually their politics are vastly inferior. Steam has never been part of any big controversial issues, and whenever one had the potential to crop up, Valve addressed it quickly. However EA is known for blundering into bad/irksome decisions and only altering them after a lot of sustained pressure from their customers.

Their support is solid though. I can't really compare the servers given I've never had an issue downloading anything from either of them, however Origin STILL has a bug it's had from YEARS ago, where it will randomly wipe a large chunk of a download for no reason, repeatedly. Eight gigs to download? Just got to six gigs? Whoops! Now you're back down to two gigs again for the fifth time! The 'solution' they give you is to opt into the beta participation. Strangest thing? It works. Yet the bug still persists, years later. That's not even getting onto things like Spore (an EA game on an EA platform), where patching it up to date and installing the expansion packs goes wrong frequently, requiring you to uninstall and re-install until it goes correctly... assuming you enabled the option to keep installers after their first run.

Origin will never compete with Steam until it becomes more than just a launcher, and for that it needs the draw of community, which can only reliably be seeded if they have a large selection of reasonably priced games to draw people in, or exclusives that heavily promote befriending strangers.

Origin isn't very good, but then again it's not absolutely horrible either.

What you mean their politics way better?

I will just get my popcorn