If it helps solve your puzzle: not everyone shares the same ideas as you. We're not a hivemind. I'm sure if you shared your profession and recent activities, someone will disagree with it.

A lot of engineers have to work everyday on detecting bots. They'll work on this to "solve" the problem. They don't care much about the open web and so on, it's not their job. There's only so much a single human can care about, and we all need to balance it to make sure what we truly care about isn't affected. The open web to us may be of importance. To them, the open web is a bunch of bots. Ethics, morals, etc. rarely plays a role.