Cracking Denuvo isn't particularly hard as much as it is extremely tedious. Checks are baked everywhere in the game code, so there are (at least) thousands of little edits you have to make, and if only one of them was implemented wrong or hasn't been located (this is gamecode, tied to in-game events), no more game.
(This is a flawed explanation, but you get the deal)
It's enough to drive most crackers insane... hence EMPRESS.
The more people passionately post about drama on a meme page, the less I care about it.