At that point, companies could just provide an API and let users bring their own user agent, be it AI or traditional. The problem is that history has shown tha

At that point, companies could just provide an API and let users bring their own user agent, be it AI or traditional. The problem is that history has shown that companies really do not want to do that. They will happily pay to maintain an inferior interface and go out of their way to disrupt third party clients.