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This sounds really petty to me, it grinds your gears that the attack developer is proud of their work?

Seems like the next logical step will be for one of the many people specializing in defenses to develop a "permanent" fix :)

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It's not petty. Hacks in multiplayer games ruin the game for everyone else, and the hack developer hopes that the hack will stay undetected forever. That's not proud. It's more like "I hope you can use this to be assholes and ruin the game for all other players as long as the game exists."

Also, this is just a game, but if it was ransomware and the dev said "hopefully this ransomware will be antivirus undetected for ever", you'd probably have a different opinion, no?

Perhaps I'm just going with a more charitable interpretation. The hack developer came up with what he thinks is a new approach that fundamentally undermines the approach taken by anticheat developers, of course he hopes that his work wasn't in vain.

Yeah, I think it is petty to call him out for having a "bad attitude" because of this.

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