That is really the case, and the comments you linked to don't agree with you. tl;dr for people who haven't heard of them: Anish Kapoor is an artist who paid a

That is really the case, and the comments you linked to don't agree with you. tl;dr for people who haven't heard of them: Anish Kapoor is an artist who paid a lot of money to make sure that nobody except him will ever be allowed to make art with Vantablack. In response, Stuart Semple released a bunch of pigments and stuff that everyone except Anish Kapoor is allowed to use.