Also, after a brief period, all of the cheaters disappeared because just repeatedly winning a PvE game get boring.
Why the serious anticheat? To try to prevent you from cheating your way to possession of all the cool clothes for your pretty princess.
the cool clothes cost $$$ or are randomally found. 0.0000004% chance to get, or pay money for better odds.
or pay lots of money to just get it.
The super invasive kernel-mode variants (that is, the sort that's in Valorant) flat out fail, and surely always will. It's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that with some others (like Easy Anti Cheat), it's a choice made by the game dev as to whether running in Wine/Proton will be permitted or not.
Sure, I didn't intend to suggest that it was. That's one of the reasons I mentioned EAC. Apologies for the confusion.