It’s an acceptable choice for scraping, because with scraping you usually go into it with the expectation that it will break and need updates sometimes as the s

It’s an acceptable choice for scraping, because with scraping you usually go into it with the expectation that it will break and need updates sometimes as the scraped site changes. The warning bells are more for things like validating user input on your own site, where there might be security implications of an impossible parsing task.