I'd like to touch upon some points of this discussion:
1) Online-poker was created to bring live game experience to your home
No no and no. Other wise you'd play only 1 table at a time, and with a web-camera, and only with chatting in English. Yes, a lot of fan, but only 40 hands per hour! And no Zoom. And you cannot leave a table after a big win if you haven't spent 2 hours in the game already.
So please, stop comparing these 2 different worlds...
2) Rec players are afraid to deposit when they know about software used by evil pros
and
3) HUD are not available to everyone
Well, what's simply not a case, actually. When I started playing poker, I lost ofc. So after 2 weeks I started googling how can I play better and found a well known poker-school. And I found all the needed software and how to use it. So, all soft is available for those who are interested. 30 days of a free trial for PT and HEM. One may argue, that you'll still need to pay after that. Ok. Stars, probably, can kindly ask those developers to provide their software completely for free for the first 3k of hands per month. I guess, this covers the amount of hands a usual recreational guy plays. Probably, this model of "trial" will be even beneficial for PT and HEM.
4) If soft is banned I at last will win more
First of all, if you don't win now, you won't win without soft. People who win now will continue to win because of 2 reasons a) they simply have better common strategies and understanding of the game b) they still can use "self made" software (or elaborate a ton of other ways to workaround), which will just create a pain in the ass for GIT.
I can also imagine, that some of HUD haters will also play a bit better without huds, but again a) increased winrate doesn't mean that your $/h will get better b) why don't you play at anonymous tables in other poker rooms?
There's
a very nice article by MPN mamagement -
http://www.thempn.eu/blog/world-without-huds/ I highly recommend to read it. Very likely Stars know about it, that's why they in general allow HUDs and other soft and never introduced anonymous tables in their room.
So, as a conclusion:
• those who need soft will use it or find workarounds
• those who are loosing now will continue to do it and likely even faster
• haters gonna hate