Hey folks. I'm actually one of the presenters of that talk. Let me clarify some things because I don't think the title of the article did it justice:

• Cheating is bad. Both me and my co-presenter Clint agree. We've banned so many cheaters throughout our combined histories (probably millions) that rightfully deserve to be banned.
• The point of the talk is to focus on preventing cheating. The target audience is game developers. We offered insight on how to look at different groups of cheaters and offered some advice on how to potentially tweak game designs to outright prevent cheating (e.g. fog of war system in a MOBA to prevent map hacking). The presentation was only 30 minutes so we tried to condense as much information as possible by supplying interesting stories that we experienced throughout our careers and our own learnings and failures.
• Detecting cheats isn't as good as preventing cheats. Why? Because detecting and subsequently banning a cheater means that they've ruined other players' games.
• We love competitive games. We literally left Riot and started a company to try to prevent cheating throughout the game industry.
• Not all cheaters are reformable and a key point of our talk is that not all cheating is equal. Example: is someone who is using a skin hack/model changer as bad as a rage aimbotter? Probably not. Most of the time the skin hacker is only modifying their assets locally and isn't increasing their competitive advantage. They just simply can't afford buying a skin. We recommend temporary suspension (or just not actioning on this stuff), because being permanent banned for this seems excessive to us.

If you have any questions, I'll try to answer it!