It's not just about security. It's also about half of the countries in the world not being able to have a PSN account. Anyone in those countries who bought the game can no longer play the game they bought. I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't otherwise care about the DRM who are going to be locked out of their game.

You speak so high and might as if its incomprehensible that someone might enjoy this on say, a Steam Deck? Where that risk is significantly mitigated. It was entirely optional to have Sony at the start, its unacceptable that has changed.

Especially if you're one of the people complaining about the PSN data breaches... My brother in christ you're cool with having malware by definition from an insanely shady korean company on your computer.

that ps plus subscription where I'm from is too hard to swallow with the fx rate now heading to the 60:1 lvl

Because they understand "subscription", but not " rootkit" or "drm"