It's the obvious question. It's the intuitive question. And it's produced an architecture that looks like this: scan the system, detect the cheat, issue the ban, repeat. The defender invests in detection. The attacker invests in evasion. Both sides escalate. The defender asks for more access: kernel-level hooks, always-on monitoring, hardware attestation. The attacker finds the gap anyway. The cycle continues.

Let me be clear: detection still matters. Anti-cheat systems, for all their limitations, are a necessary part of the competitive gaming ecosystem. The 272% increase in AI-driven cheats makes them more important, not less.