Great commentary, today the industry is focused on delivering free game with tons of cosmetics (which gives a ton of money) but forgetting about performance and security.
Your average networked game these days is probably a bazillion times more secure than one from 20 years ago. It was super common that there were cheat tools to crash all game clients in a match. It was super annoying, we can just be glad that it was usually not used for anything more nefarious.