[monkeywork]

That reads more like:

- site owners can have protection as long as it doesn't inconvenience me.

[Dylan16807]

Close.

Replace "me" with "legitimate users" and replace "inconvenience" with "very aggressively inconvenience or entirely block".

Then yeah you have it.

[IgorPartola]

I mean, yeah that is what it is. You can have “protection” or you can have me as a customer. I am not here to solve broken CAPTCHAs all day long.