I think calling the fact that as a consumer, it would be better for me to cancel my pre-order and pirate+emulate the game near two weeks earlier a "nonexistent problem" is a tad dismissive.This would infuriate and alienate even more people than just delaying the physical games, all to solve a nonexistent problem. It probably wouldn't be a barrier to hackers either.
This is also how pre-loading already works for digital copies and hackers have no way around that.