An explanation of the observer effect may be that the universe is lazily evaluated at the moment of observation. Outside of that experienced reality, it might as well be all a cloud of latent possibilities, rough outlines and low-res details, enough for a plausible simulation.
This would allow for a dds attack on reality where a bunch of simulants attempt to perform computationally expensive observations at the same time.
The Simulators working at the universal data center wondering why this particular server rack is getting hot. "Have you tried turning it off and back on?"