I don't understand why would someone add an anticheat to a renpy game
Some things can't be understood.
yes it was hardship and annoying at first but the game designer this doing it to stop user from breaking the game with the mean of a third party software or editor the save. I know because I have try it before, a person was asking for help, I end loading up his save.
No, he wasn't doing it to stop people "from breaking the game", specially because if someone broke the game, could just download it again and that's it.
He did this to BREAK people saves, so people spend more time on his game. Just dunno why, he thinks people will like his game better or support him or patreon when he destroy a save with tons of hours spend, just because the person has little time to play, while working, studying, having a social life, etc?
That's the lamest defence of a dumb dev I have ever seen, a 2-3gb game is broken? Well, download again. You messed your own save using third parties? Well, your fault. Now a deve WILLINGLY breaking people save to punish them cause they don't have time for his dumb grind loving addiction? This is pathetic, and anyone who defends this is the same (Or just an heir who stays jerking while living from his parents money and don't have to work or study to waste tens of hours on a "fishing money horrible game" or hammering nails down.