I don't play EAC games, so I don't really have a stake in this.
There are plenty of reasons to run Linux apart from "I want complete and utter freedom" or something like that.
I would gently remind you that we have been giving kernel-level access to e.g. Nvidia for decades too.
It's a trade-off, and there are still plenty of actual day-to-day practical benefits of running Linux beyond philosophy.