isn't it only Empress at this point, which is the entire reason why she is tolerated?

There is a crack team called MKDEV that targets Football Manager series which uses a slightly weaker version of Denuvo. They didn't crack the 2024 series so far, but chances are they will sometime soon.

I have little doubt someone will lay into me for saying this but is even Empress bothering anymore? I haven't seen anything from her in months.

Pretty sure it's just Empress lol

There are two, Empress and I can't remember the other name, the other person/group just does Football Manager games running older versions of Denvuo

If I recall correctly, CODEX's Denuvo cracker was Empress anyway, so it has been just her for a long while now. There have been one or two cracks by other people for games using ancient versions of Denuvo that nobody bothered to crack before, but she's the only one doing anything with Denuvo's current version.

I believe there's one that only cracks football games. I'm not too deep into the crack universe though