I asked you to provide an example of your claim within the AAA industry and you couldn't.

The goalpost you moved. I never said a one man team made a AAA game with $100M. I said an indie developer can make a DRM-free game, what's stopping a AAA dev (as shown with the AAA examples, clearly nothing other than choice).

Baldur's Gate and Cyberpunk are self published. Which is very ironic because I uhh said this earlier
The only way he could circumvent requirements would be if he decided to self publish the title.

Yes, which as I said earlier:

But he owns Kojima Productions, he chose which publisher to use and agreed to their terms.

So, Kojima could have self-published. Those titles are not just 'magically' self-published, there is a choice made there.

Oh and as far as Doom goes. They didn't fully remove Denuvo until 2023

1/3 of the examples, yes. But they still did after 3 years, Death Stranding still hasn't after 6 years...

I see you are going to resort to going around in circles now though in an attempt to defend your beloved, so I am going to move on, as you'll never admit defeat. Good luck out there! o7