Bayesian analysis seeks an estimator which minimises posterior expected loss, conditioning on the data and with the expectation taken over the parameters under a particular prior.
A frequentist analysis might seek an estimator for which uniform bounds on the worst-case expected loss are available, which hold in expectation over the data, given any value of the parameters.
Both approaches fit into a decision theoretic framework and there are good reasons why you might care about frequentist properties when making decisions. I agree that this isn't only about average case vs worst case -- as you point out it's also about whether you take expectations over data given params or over the params given data, and that's important too. But I think the average case vs worst case aspect of this is an important part of what this is all about and gets to the heart of what the trade-offs are when choosing between these methods.
I disagree that the sampling distribution is "irrelevant for making decisions", that's quite an extreme view which I don't think many applied Bayesian statisticians would take. Frequentist properties are something people often validly care about when deciding on a statistical procedure to use in an experimental design context, i.e. before collecting the data -- and especially if you're choosing an estimator which you intend to use many times for many experiments, even if they're not all exact replicates of each other.