I don't think anyone would've complained if the localization's quality was on-par with AA or Vagrant Story, but it looks to me like that isn't the case.
It's cat and mouse when it comes to banning, even with hwid signatures the cheaters are able to use sophisticated spoofing techniques. Also there are side effects like legitimate players buying second hand pcs that have been banned.
When I was playing it MHW would run a constant CRC check over some parts of memory that degraded performance considerably. Did they remove that? If not it'll probably use up battery power like crazy too.