As the author says in this article, it’s not their original idea, but this is the first time I’m hearing about it.
It basically boils down to play a game from your backlog for a bit, and whether you liked it or not, or kept playing it or bounced right off, you now have permission to remove it from your backlog. It sounds very freeing.
I take perhaps a little too much pride in having a very small catalogue of unplayed games (not because I play games a lot, but because I am dreadfully cheap and hardly ever buy anything lol), but even an old miser like me could probably benefit from a little tidying.
For me it’s mostly games from bundles I bought years ago, I wanted that one game, but got 3 others, a sweet deal, but they sit there and accumulate. There are also games I played, but stopped. I consider those still in the backlog because I haven’t finished them
That and Steam Families becoming a thing our backlogs keep getting bigger and bigger.