"Kernel anti-cheat" and "spyware" is exactly what i mean. Thry do have millions of players. But that's like 20-30 games out of 1000s that run just fine.

But that is what people play... The quantity does not matter, the quality does.

What people? Very few top games on Steam require kernel-level anti-cheat -- https://steamdb.info/charts/

> But that is what people play

Lots of people don't play them. It's not like we don't have a choice.