I think just purely off of the additional effort—a cheat that requires a second PC and specialized hardware is simply going to have fewer users than something y

I think just purely off of the additional effort—a cheat that requires a second PC and specialized hardware is simply going to have fewer users than something you can download and run. Some portion of people won't care enough or will have some sort of other issue with the hardware setup. I think generally these things aren't about making it impossible so much as reducing the frequency.