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It was never the quantity of games available. Nobody wants to buy the same games on multiple services. They should have partnered with steam so you could import games from steam to play on stadia.

They also needed to have a game studio designing games that actually took advantage of what stadia could potentially provide.

That can't be the only reason. Valve's Steamdeck has been a big success and it runs linux.

With a Windows emulation layer over it, right?

For games that need it, yes. Proton works very will and Valve has done a ton of work to certify that games work on the handheld. There are currently 5.5k+ games with the verified or playable status, and if a game isn't on the list it still might work fine.

The concept of Stadia is paying for games separately in a way that will inherently run worse than a good machine due to latency. Its failure is due to it being a garbage concept that most people smelled from a mile away.

Isn't Steam Linux?