Yes, I mean I understand why people use the term rootkit. But, at the same time it isn't good to dilute a term for something malicious.

At the same time, while I hate cheating in online games I barely trust game developers that are often on a crunch timeline, access to user mode on my system. I really don't want to give them access to kernel mode just to detect cheats. Also, it just means the next level of cheats just has to do the same, or get themselves in the hypervisor instead or hardware based anyway.

I don't play games that have kernel mode anti cheat (unless they've somehow installed kernel mode drivers without me knowing, every game installer wants admin to install these days it seems) for this reason.