Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

As long as GOG exists I don't really see the point, as long as the game is also on GOG.

What I understand you're saying is, a hypervisor (HV) bypass that basically gives the crack the highest root access to your PC. That's not smart. I got a great deal on an Xbox Series X, so I just game on that. My Macs are generally not good for gaming, but I play Animal Crossing on the MacBook with an emulator. No root or hypervisor bypass necessary, it works with no more permissions than a media player. It loads the rom image, it boots it, the game plays. Probably the cleanest way to game since nothing is really installed (game wise, the emulator is of course installed, though Macs "install" things more cleanly than Windows — beside the point, but a Mac ".app" file is basically a container (think ISO) that gets loaded (like mount, but it's not mounted) and it has its own internal file system (think %APPDATA% on Windows) but it's all in that one .app file. On Windows you have projects like PortableApps that aim to do the same thing, but not quite as well and only with some apps (few if any games). I don't have Cyberpunk 2077 installed any more (runs like shit on M2/M2 Pro, rather plan on XSX) but I'm pretty sure Cyberpunk2077.app was just this one ~85GB file. Now I'm not saying Macs are better for gaming (they're objectively not), but I wouldn't fuck with a hypervisor bypass on a Windows machine if I had one. I already don't like how Windows itself works. It's a shitty system that's been shitty since the 90s and they refuse to modernise it because they'd lose compatibility with the old stuff, like Macs have done 3 or 4 times over the years. Windows is already bad. It does have some decent security though. Bypassing that is just asking for trouble. I say don't do it. But I have a Mac, so I can't do it.