Has anything changed as of late? Yes, scraper bots where a start-up sends a zombie army of grabbers are now car-pooling with bad actors hitting the side of the infrastructure with bazookas on the regular mean that it's a fight to just keep the ship upright. That's relatively new.

"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"

"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"

"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"

"About as intelligent as a border collie."

"So, intelligent. Why?"

"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."

Q+D, graphic design is my passion, etc etc

At least bitcoin mining didn't destroy my websites with so much bot driven scraping.