Yeah unfortunately when Bending Spoons buy out companies, development typically slows or even stalls and the subscription costs go astronomical. They’ve done the same with Komoot, Evernote and a bunch of others.

Even their website summarises how shit they are once you wrap quotes around the right word:

We acquire and “improve” iconic products. Supported by dozens of proprietary technologies and an elite team of engineers, scientists, and designers

https://tech4gamers.com/denuvo-destroys-performance-optimization-games/

Honestly, no single malware tanks gaming performance anywhere near the levels that this shit does. It’s closer to the characteristics of game cancer.

I know it’s satire, but this is more or less the same shit corpos use to bail themselves out.