Nonsense. What do habitual pirates care? They don't suffer from any of this stuff, unlike your paying customers. Us who might want to buy the game, on the other hand...
Has this DRM given the SimCity players anything positive? No. Its very purpose is customer hostility. Planned obsolescence, preventing user mods, guaranteeing that no customer's eyeballs can avoid a single BUY MORE DLC! popup EA sees fit to throw at them in the future.
Indeed, this is a good opportunity to point out the quality of EA's treatment of their customers. I don't own the game, because this is not how I expect to be treated when I do own a game. I could argue no one else owns the game either. They give EA money, hope for the best, and EA may then graciously allow them to play or not.
I don't complain about games with no problems. For instance, the copy of Alan Wake I recently acquired from GoG is running just fine, and Remedy Entertainment deserves every cent they got. I note they did not sabotage their single player game by artificially tying it to a network service, did not utterly fuck up the launch, did not lie to customers about availability of refunds, etc.