[Spunkie]

    > However, the majority of games that have invasive anti-cheat requirements cannot simply remove the requirement, pass off the company's (usually paid!) moderation duties to a bunch of volunteers, and call it a day.

Bull, they 100% absolutely can do that and their communities would be better off.

   > Yeah, if you could just ban cheaters forever, all would be well!

Again the only reason you think this is even necessary is because of giant corporate servers where players have very little to no control over who they play with.

I used to fund, run, and moderate private/community server across many many games. I can tell you from experience, being able to ban someone for even just 5-10 minutes is more than enough to send 99.5% of hackers fleeing to another unmodderated server, aka leaving your server, players, and friends alone to have hacker free fun.