Thankfully, the ripping of avatars has not happened to me... yet, but it still continues to happen to others and the only practical solution to this problem is to remove EAC from the game. It functionally makes the game less secure because it ruins all of the hard work avatar makers put in by making them easier to steal, and makes it easier for people to crash servers by not addressing the faults of the Unity engine.

VRChat Inc. continues to misunderstand that the majority of avatar theft is done via use of a file cache--NOT via a modded client. Crashing is also more frequently done via exploiting the Unity engine & game audio--NOT via a modded client. Prior to the update, users were allowed to install mods that help prevent against crashers & rippers, and EAC took those abilities away. EAC is also a performance hog--especially for lower-end systems that most people have--which makes crashing all the more likely.

Therefore, because EAC only prevents the use of modded clients and does nothing against the methods crashers & rippers ACTUALLY use to commit their atrocities, crashers and rippers are still allowed to roam free as they always have, if not easier because users no longer have any defenses against them.

For analogy, EAC is like gun control; it punishes everyone (like a gun ban) to solve a specific problem (gun violence) that is more frequently done through other means (such as knives, fists, & black-market guns), and it ultimately makes the problem worse because no one is able to defend against it anymore (as law-abiding citizens have no guns to fight back with).

There are only two ways to solve this problem: Completely remove EAC from the game and allow users to implement defensive game modifications, or completely redevelop VRChat from the ground up using a different & more robust game engine. Removing EAC is the only sensible option.

This is not up for negotiation anymore. From a business perspective, EAC is an indisputable burden on VRChat and is should be deleted from the game in the next update. It doesn't matter how VRChat Inc. personally feels about EAC or what it expects to gain from its addition, the removal MUST be done if the game is to retain any incentive for users to keep playing.