Why shouldn't bots (who work on behalf of users after all) not get access to information?

I just found something via LLMs and bought it from a website that I would have never found with traditional search engines (because I didn't).

this is bad faith argument. You are well aware that the majority of bots are used for negative purposes, at best, those purposes are neutral.

The situation you describe is certainly legitimate and useful, but is not the norm. Separating legitimate bots from the rest is currently not possible reliably.

Am I a bot? How do you know?

I reject your false dichotomy.

You reject the law of the excluded middle - you reject that either I am a bot or I am not a bot?

This is HK. We here are all bots at heart.