There's a huge number of gamers moving to things like CachyOS. Some are stuck because of Valorant, LoL or Battlefield DRM, but it's a big move lately.

I'd never play one of those games but the excuse for the kernel modules spying on you is usually anti-cheat not DRM as they are online games.

There are droves of people petitioning Valve to add kernel anti–cheat to CS2.