At what point is someone going to just say "fuck Twitter, Inc." and create a library of simple web-scrapers that emulates most of the API that twitter has been

At what point is someone going to just say "fuck Twitter, Inc." and create a library of simple web-scrapers that emulates most of the API that twitter has been trying to claw back from the third-party dev community for the past year via the standard http interface? Such a library may be brittle, but it can't be much worse than the "yeah, we told you to do this a couple of months ago but now we changed our minds and you have two weeks to comply with our new policy" status that exists now?