this anti cheat is the most privacy invasive kind, controlling and monitoring everything on your computer

Avg gamer: Woah that’s really bad.

Me: So you’ll uninstall the game now, right?

Avg gamer: What? Heck no. I’m Diamond in Valorant. And all my friends are playing it

They will understand what you said. But changing habit is way harder on a mass scale. It’s well known for years that Vanguard is a rootkit but the game is as popular as ever. If you tell this on any gaming community, you’ll be responded with “Oh and switch to LinSux and play decade old games?”