I also heard another reason for this decision is to fight off scalpers of rare emotes that are selling for exuberant prices online. Like the Omega emote.

My question then is why not just make those emotes available in the mogstation? Or be an in-game reward? This whole situation was exactly what I feared (and the devs themselves feared) when people kept asking for anti-cheat implementation to combat against third party tools, an extreme solution to a problem that cant be forever solved.