heres the github issue, it does discuss VAC bans but without a “will/wont” answer
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Ok look so hopefully valve will not ban people due to this because the protondb page is full with people doing this. It will be quite unfair for that many people to be banned just because they'd want to play the game. Since they are aware and add that to steam linux runtime, it will be a very good thing for all source games.
It could be assumed that Valve updated VAC on their side to check for the use of those specific workaround libraries, and if a VAC ban did somehow land, surely one could contest it and say "I followed this workaround".
I feel they have more leniancy to Linux users because that's literally their financial base now for the Deck, but it's embarassing this is affecting SO many Source 1 games and no official fix yet.