Yeah, the entertainment industry's refusal to offer consistent legal access to works and subsequent tantrum when people resort to not-so-legal means is an astounding lack of self-awareness.
Botting is pretty much a fact of life on the internet now a days. We have the centralization of social media to thank for that. Only way to disincentivize it is to pull back to smaller online communities like forums and/or use fedeverse sites like Lemmy and Mastodon.