Doesn't Tesla have driver monitoring and a driver score? So to use autopilot, you not only have to roughly pay attention, but also be pretty good at driving in general to use the beta?

Or did they get rid of that? It sounded like a good compromise to me.

No, that's for their "full self driving" system.

There are tutorials on social media for how to circumvent the driver monitoring for 'autopilot'. See for example, the instance in the article of a Tesla going down the highway with the driver in the back seat.

On what basis can a private company decide what is and isn’t allowable on public roads? Also, there is no human that can engage with a suddenly dangerous situation on a split second basis. People suck at continuous monitoring tasks, if you are driving yourself you are actually engaged.