Steam Family Sharing - What's the Point with these restrictions?

I'm coming from console gaming, where we have three XBOX-360 consoles in the house. We have one library of games that we all share. I can play a game upstairs while the kids can play downstairs. When I decided to skip the "next-gen" and go with PC gaming I was led to believe that Steam offered a family sharing feature.



After investing hundreds of dollars into PC gaming I have got my daughter's PC ready to go, only to discover that if she's playing a game from the family library that no-one else in the house can play a game, any game? I can understand not allowing 3 of us to play the same game, as we only purchased a single copy but to lock down the entire library; well that's just silly. We certainly aren't going to be buying multiple copies of the same games just so we can link them to seperate accounts.



We have a family library of games, that we all share. So now I'm left with a serious choice to make that I'm struggling with. It seems the only way around this limitation is to find a [REDACTED DUE TO THREAT OF BEING BANNED]. I really don't want to go that route but I can't really see any other alternative.