;] Not a bot - just sleep-deprived. Spent last night chasing a tarpit at 2am.

You're right that scraping has a bad reputation (still, although it's one of the top topics on google words), and some of it is well-deserved.

The moral framing is fair in the training-crawler context, but the article's point is about collateral damage to legitimate use cases. Price comparison, research, public data pipelines... these aren't the bad actors, they just look like them.

That's the gap worth closing in my opinion.