They need to throttle because otherwise they're simply a DDoS service. It's clear they don't give a fuck though, like any bigtech company. They'll spend millions on prosecuting anyone who dares to do what they perceive as a DoS attack against them, but they'll spit in your face and laugh at you if you even dare to claim they are DDoSing you.

yeah it’s fun out on the wild internet! Thankfully I don’t manage something thing crawlable anymore but even so the endpoint traffic is pretty entertaining sometimes.

What would keep me up at night if I was still more on the ops side is “computer use” AI that’s virtually indistinguishable from a human with a browser. How do you keep the junk away then?