For those artists out there looking to protect their work from being gobbled up by software that will create images in your style…

Academic researchers say the protections advertised are not reliable.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12027

So, yes, you should continue using the protection schemes, because they do stop some mimicry, but don't put too much faith in them

There don't seem to be any easy answers here. It's hard to show your work to potential buyers and prevent the leeches from doing their thing