Maybe because they restated what they said instead of addressing to the previous commenter’s point.

Because the crawlers would still have hammered their site, though.

(The GP post doesn’t actually meaningfully address the issue being raised. Adding BigQuery or whatever would not change the fact that (a) they already offered a method of getting all of the data in a cost effective way, and (b) the issue was that the crawlers hammered the site hard enough to make it economically unviable.)