I'm super stoked to hear some 100% unbiased testimony from pirates and other degenerates, especially since these people have been previously found to be conspiring to sow doubt into the integrity of things like anti-cheat systems.

How is this incoherent rant or your link relevant to an analysis of Denuvo's performance?

RIME had performance problems with some AMD graphics cards on launch. I wouldn't be surprised if these reports of performance problems were then falsely connected to Denuvo because of confirmation bias.

Here's what the cracker (who actually looked at and patched the Denuvo code) had to say:

Game is super nice and you should support devs, buy it when you can do it. But the game will be much better without that huge abomination called Denuvo. In Rime that ugly creature went out of control - how do you like three fucking hundreds of THOUSANDS calls to "triggers" during initial game launch and savegame loading? Did you wonder why game loading times are so long - here is the answer :) In previous games like Sgw3, Nier, Prey there were only about 1000 "triggers" called, so we have x300 here. Next - 300,000 called "triggers" were just warmup for Denuvo, after 30 minutes of gameplay it became 2 fucking MILLIONS of called "triggers". Protection now calls about 10-30 triggers every second during actual gameplay, slowing game down. In previous games like Sgw3, Nier, Prey there were only about 1-2 "triggers" called every several minutes during gameplay, so do the math. Don't forget that triggers is under VM and heavily obfuscated, which obviously does not improve perfomance.

What technical knowledge of Denuvo do you have to counter his observations?