Or they could just be more 'powerful' compute that can clear the challenge faster.

I know I'm incensed at all of this because I feel like I'm the one that endlessly waits in front of the Anubis challenge for 5-10 seconds, or keeps getting extremely difficult or brain-draining hCaptchas thrown at me with no real solutions.

And I'm stuck with low-end compute for probably the rest of time at this point - not a single machine in the house has more than 8GB of RAM. So I'm just doomed to wait and burn my time and my sanity some more.

The "you need to enable cookies to view this site", cookies that will be limited to a browser-container and will be thrown away when the browser is closed anyway, is a sign that this modern nu web is broken in a fundamental way.