Yeah but then they'll have an unauthenticated API, I see this often.

Website owners will also never stop scraping and prosecuting the owner of every crawler (who can obfuscate their identity anyways) is impossible.

Captchas are going to increasingly become more obsolete.

It's a fools errand to spend resources fighting scrapers.

Edit (non cancerous URL) https://i.redd.it/o6xypg00uac91.png

And pretty soon afterward, every one of those login page will be circumvented by a bot signup.