I would agree if the article was saying "7000 games enabled in Steam", but it's not:
> we are very close to 7000 Windows games confirmed to be working out of the box with Proton on Linux.
A better point of comparison for the actual claim would be Wine-launcher or CrossOver or some other Wine wrapper. As it is, the base for comparison used is "nothing worked before"
Given that this news provider reports quite frequently on Proton, I can understand that they assumed their readership would know what they meant. I will concede that the wording is pretty loose objectively.
> we are very close to 7000 Windows games confirmed to be working out of the box with Proton on Linux.
A better point of comparison for the actual claim would be Wine-launcher or CrossOver or some other Wine wrapper. As it is, the base for comparison used is "nothing worked before"