Comment by jayd16

This isn't exactly wrong but you're not looking at it from a modern perspective.

If you can cheat and get away with it, then you'll see streamers do it. That will tank confidence in your game.

It doesn't matter if cheating doesn't make you top the leaderboard. If you have global leaderboards, they will be dominated by cheaters.

I don't think rootkits are excusable but if the solution was simple they would do that.