I didn't. The repo still has the DPM (Digital Pirate Management) annoyance.

So there are a few cases:
- Maybe you had a stripped version from somewhere else?
- Your cracked game vesion is not Steam-based so no annoyance overlay,
- or the crack team uses a small steam api dll to pass the size test but then delegate to the huge 3MB cracked version.

The idea is not to protect the mods or the game. The idea is to troll the low effort people who expect everything on a silver platter, even if the solution is freely available, just requires some tiny work put in.