[manicdee]

You left out the part where the gardener watches over your shoulder as you do your banking, apply for a passport, apply for a better job, yadda yadda.

Given my druthers I'd prefer the ability to block people I don't want to play with, and have no anti-cheat system.

As an example if you play Warframe on consoles you'll find that you are encountering the same people game after game. So a block list (as a way to punish cheaters) would be useful because you aren't playing with a random selection of the entire world. There's also the case that Warframe is a game where cheating doesn't matter (though some abilities have been modified to prevent griefing).

If a subscription to a game store means it's possible to prevent multiplayer games matching me up with certain other subscribers, I'd much prefer that over the game publisher wanting to install anti-cheat software that takes control over my operating system.