I think there are couple things going on here

The replication/copying has always been there in one form or another. The bar has traditionally been higher for reputation and monetary risks.

Lately the legal bar is the one that going down, ease of replication makes it even more tempting and when big players are doing it at scale (bots) then it validates the strategy in one way or another.

If anything, there have to be downstream consequences of this with time, libraries to pollute the front end code for LLMs are most likely going to get popular and probably one way to make it harder for your IP to be replicated.