Can I ask why you quit the Bot industry? It seems super lucrative right now.
You could actually call this a symbiotic lock-in. I once read an excellent post on how SEO (despite being a gray area for search engines) entrenches Google's market share because many SEO practitioners specialize in it.
If your ecosystem has become so specialized that most well-adapted users are bots, you have a problem (or not, if you can monetize bots).
This is the whole point of this article: device detection is generally a false sense of security.
It really depends on what the benefits of bypassing the detection are and if those benefits can be had elsewhere at lower cost. For ticket sales or limited run product sales or similar things, the benefits of buying (and presumbably reselling) the limited item is high, and there's a limit to what you can do to detect humans (and as you've described it can be counter productive). For spam prevention, making it cost more to spam means spammers are encouraged to find somewhere else to spam, which is good for your users (while using your product anyway). But it won't stop everything, some people are going to manually type their spams, and some people will build robots to tap out their spams more like a person; and if you ruin the experience for users (especially new users) that doesn't work either; a network with zero messages is spam free, but doesn't help anyone.
Not sure how reCaptcha “v3” (the photos of streets one) works. It could work the same way, but just with more known and unknown (unclassified) pictures? It’s also a lot more harsh if you get it wrong: artificial delays, switching to the “click until no more remain” mode (with more delays), and more. Sometimes, it just refuses to let you through no matter what: https://youtu.be/zGW7TRtcDeQ It’s extremely frustrating.
On a somewhat related note: I used to write sneaker buying bots and captcha was one of the best things to happen to the bot industry.
Captcha was easily "bypassed" by services that had humans sitting at computers generating tokens. Recaptcha tokens are valid for two minutes by default, so you'd be able to generate tokens up to two minutes in advance and have dozens of tokens available when the product in question became available for purchase. Real buyers had to wait for drop and then spend 15s+ filling out the captcha. Bots would take most of the stock in less than a second. I always felt like this was a fantastic example of a bot prevention mechanism that actually actively harmed "legitimate" users.