Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux

Looks like they use Easy Anti Cheat services which run at the kernel level on windows but not on Linux, that leaves a huge loophole available for Linux which I actually believe will increase cheating dramatically.

As for the software development, that’s on EAC to fix. And in fairness it doesn’t make sense for them financially to do so. Cheating already costs these companies a ton of money to fix as is.

Yes

Ease of access.

Or Monitors which use AI to spot players, something which could be considered cheating but can't be detected other than being "too good" something that'll have a shit ton of false positives and can be defeated by losing occasionally.

No they really haven't. They've given no numbers to quantify the problem.

This reads like "we don't know if they are cheating, it's hard to tell, and it's getting harder to tell, so we're just done."

This reeks of a decision based on a feeling about the direction of cheating vs a significant move to reduce cheating.

Sure how many people play on Linux vs windows? How many cheaters are on windows vs Linux? A assure you the windows number is way higher then Linux on both.