That stopped being a solution when winning online started mattering. There are real money prizes for online game tournaments. Weekly events can have hundreds of

That stopped being a solution when winning online started mattering. There are real money prizes for online game tournaments. Weekly events can have hundreds of dollars in their prize pools. Big events can have thousands. Suddenly vote kicking had to go, because it was abused. Not in the tournaments themselves, but in open ranked play which serves as qualifiers. An active game can rack up thousands of hours of gameplay per day, far beyond the ability of competent admins to validate. Especially because cheating is often subtle. An expert can spend more than real time looking for subtle patterns that automated tools haven't been built to detect. Games aren't between you and your 25 buddies for bragging rights anymore. They're between you and 50k other active players for cash prizes. The world has changed. Anti-cheat technology followed that change.