I give Valve the benefit of the doubt and assume that they know that there’s plenty of consumers that are heavily against a kernel level anticheat. Valve is not really known for anti-consumer bullshit like this.

Yeah, this and the completely over-the-top kernel level anticheat rootkit for a PvE game really turned me off.

I’m getting a lot of hate and no actual facts.

Maybe that’s because you didn’t provide any actual fact yourself.

It’s not about anticheat per se but about kernel-level anticheats, which are just overkill in a PvE game. I’m not sure about the other games you mentioned, but at least Apex has no kernel-level anticheat.