pkill -9 caffeinate seems pretty reasonable for them to start doing

I mean, you can just make a copy and name it whatever? You can even have it generate a new name every time you run it if you'd like. Imo this is a rather pointless cat and mouse game with developers, because either they can't do their work properly or there will be ways to work around stuff like this.

I mean it was pointless way before that, but yes