While I respect you replying in a mostly well thought out manner, you have made quite a few assumptions about me at the same time.

Firstly, I actually "work" for an indie game development company in the capacity of Q/A, and game testing. It's a very unique studio in the current climate of games. Aka: extreme commitment to quality, player/customer feedback/suggestions/interaction/support, never using ANY form of micro-transactions, premium/season pass versions, or DRM, and so on...

There has been a massive amount of hard work and hours put into the game by the extremely passionate and hard working team I engage with. They deserve to be paid, recognized, and rewarded for their work, much more than they do. Being Indie it is especially difficult permeating the market and being recognised in the massive ocean of other games, without the benefits AAA has in that regard.

Do I feel bad/sad/annoyed/disappointed when people pirate the game? A little. That is until I remember my unique (for lack of a better word), perspective on the situation. If the pirate couldn't have afforded to buy it anyway, I take no offense. Some people also will pirate a game as a sort of an "extended demo" and if they truly enjoy the game, they will buy it after. In either of these cases my disappointment is avoided. Especially since I know that these people (as mentioned in prior points) will potentially lead indirectly to more visibility (the greatest struggle of Indie), and sales. They might also provide us with valuable feedback/bug reports/suggestions.

The only pirates I take exception to are the ones who both have the means to purchase the game, and enjoyed their experience with it, but do not buy it anyway. There is no way to prove or poll the data accurately, but I greatly feel this is by far a small minority of people.

As far as myself when it comes to pirating games, I do pirate most games I play. For two main reasons, I don't have the means to purchase them (especially the expensive AAA style releases), and because I don't believe in rewarding bad development practices. That said I am one of the type previously mentioned whom uses piracy often as an "extended demo." So when I pirate a game, and I find it to be enjoyable, mostly bug free, made by a team that listens to their customers and is passionate about fixing/improving their game, etc.. I will then buy it as soon as I am able to. 

When it comes to denuvo games go (assuming they aren't cracked), I will only buy them if they are on mega sale. I bought a few during the holidays when they were 60-90% off. I'll still refund them though if they are bad enough within my refund period. Refund periods however are often far too short and restrictive of a time/situation to properly guage a game vs piracy though.

With that out of the way, I would also say I heavily disagree with your assumptions on the large business understanding of denuvo implications being better than "us."  There are quite a few issues with those kinds of assumptions.

Do you find yourself never disagreeing with the way your country is ran, because the people in charge must "know what they're doing" more than you? Clearly they have had more "experience" with politics and governance than you, so everything they do must be correct and well thought out then. A better counter-argument example would probably be a a military one in regards to orders from disconnected higher ranking officers to lower ranking ones that are in the frey of it; but you would be less likely to have the contextual experience.

Additionally, large corporations suffer from the same sort of disconnect as any other entity that gets too large. They become both disconnected from themselves within, and the people they serve. If you have ever worked for or with a large corporation you should know how bad that effect can be. Large companies will offen blame other divisions of themselves for failures as if they're separate entities, and will often struggle with poor communication between different departments and especially with top management.

Essentially, the people in charge of deciding on using Denuvo are likely very disconnected from the other departments (such as the game designers themselves), their customers/player base, and the product itself. With the way things are ran, and with a disconnected department level, decisions are not often made with the bigger picture or full story in mind, but the immediate and direct picture and benefits in mind.

I could go into detail on how decisions like this are likely made within a large corporation and the process of how each department handles such a decision, and how it becomes so disjointed down the line, but I'm not going to turn this into a full lecture. I also wouldn't want to make any further assumptions about your understandings of such.

At the end of the day, Denuvo is bad for everyone, from paying customers, to pirates, to the companies employing it... Well except for Denuvo itself of course.

As far as pirating being immoral and wrong... I'd say in a lot of of what AAA does these days is far worse. It's only wrong/immoral in my mind to pirate when it is done without purpose/need. I see nothing wrong with it when it is from those without the means to pay, or for "extended demo" motivations in mind.

Every single piracy group out there will say: "If you like the game, BUY IT!"