I tend to side with you, thats a big tech approach, grow as big as you can and screw as many people over in the process and ask for permission later/apologise/come up with some lame as solution/non-solution

Ad revenue for content is already pretty shitty, very few websites and individual bloggers can pay the bills with only some network display ads and with LLMs pushing users to remain their service and never leaving to other sites, that only reduces their chance of revenue

Even the paywall could be done with Lightning and LLMs that need this content could provide a standard response and one with paid sources.