This relates closely to the EU Initiative from https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

I’d like to see the people that are for kernel-level anticheat running in their PCs 24/7 now.

Vanguard doesn’t even let you play the game unless the anticheat has been active since boot afaik.

Every cybersec and even anyone minimally tech-savvy was saying this was a bad idea and what do you know, now we have objective evidence it is in fact a terrible, terrible idea.