[kuschku]

> nobody has been able to "open a hex editor" and disable denuvo.

In fact, three people have been able to do so, that's why denuvo games do get cracked.

[hexomancer]

Not the recent denuvo versions, and not in the past ~1 year.

That's not even the point though, I am not saying it is literally impossible to circumvent this, but as long as it is hard enough that it is not financially reasonable for the cheat makers, that's good enough.