Easy Anti-Cheat is a decent product, but doesn't stop cheat devs entirely. Just makes things harder for them.
Why FDev isn't capable of being this professional? What do you mean by that? You mean their own skills to implement an anti-cheat system that is reliable or why are they not going to a third party provider for an anti-cheat system?
Anti cheat software is like anti-virus or anti-anything software. You will never accomplish 100% safety and this is not even the goal. The goal is just to build a big hurdle to minimize the amount and impact of cheats or unwelcomed software. Since you realized that I believe we are on the same boat here.
And yes, why doesn't FDev does anything a professional developer studio would today? Let alone this "official statement on cheating" is an absolute joke. It effectively says nothing, it shows no plans and actions of how to tackle this issue. There are no liabilities, no ETAs, not even the smallest hint of any
ACTION to be taken.
Over the past 2-3 years or so FDev has been shifiting more towardsa political organisation: says alot, does nothing or nothing right and the community is completely decasuled from the developer team. There is no connection and thus FDev serves content often unwanted, in low quality or even not at all.
Now with cheating. This statement for real is the most political message that contains no information I have ever seen. Canned response as if they had it prepared before the disaster happened. Atleast we know that they take reactive actions to cheaters and ban some of them to
solo (which doesn't stop them from influencing the BGS, PP or other things, a complete game ban is necessary and appropiate) but that doesn't
prevent any sorts of cheats now and neither in the future.
Comparing that to the most similar statement they released in tha tform was combat logging. If they take cheating just as serious as combat logging then there is absolutely no hope for cheat prevention in this game because until this day there has been done ab-so-lu-te-ly nothing, nada, zero, vacuum against combat logging.
It still persists after more than 4 years, the punishment is soft at best and it is frequently happening in Elite and thus, the same outcome will most likely happen to cheaters as well. Soft punishments, frequent use of hacks, especially in solo to influence BGS and PP or even botting.
If this is professional level for anyone this world is lost.