Yes, it's all measure countermeasure. But you'll note that the most successful sites out there have bot protection and actively invest in it. I'm not concerned

Yes, it's all measure countermeasure. But you'll note that the most successful sites out there have bot protection and actively invest in it. I'm not concerned about the being overtaken narrative; My concern is the other scenario, where after the bots are done consuming and exfiltrating my data, I have no bandwidth to serve humans and my data is being vended from other sources now anyway. It's also not really that much of a losing battle. Cloudflare will fight the battle for me quite well for free, and even better for a pittance.