raypiari
For the players. For the moderators, it's almost a full-time job unless you have a reliable ID to ban, dealing with the worst kind of people, and it goes largely unappreciated.
> has it become a real problem
It's been a problem long before that, only now it's a business streamlined for normies, advertised openly on TikTok, rather than some obscure forum on the internet. I'd bet that the cheaters to legit players ratio hasn't even changed that much, it's moreso that battle-royales amplify the impact a cheater has and spectating cheaters is a popular kind of content for YouTubers. So where before one cheater might cause a temporary mayhem, disrupting a game for 20 players, now one cheater can be seen by millions. That, I think, skews the perception of how widerspread the problem actually is. It is; my point is that it has been for a while now.