I think it’s great! I think most people either ignore your statement or decided to interpret it in the wrong way.
For everyone else: The author made it clear that the purpose is weed out non-engineers. Practicaly there may not really be a use case there but it was never designed to replace captcha, most people wouldn’t be able to access the link, and anyone using or purchasing the use of a bot farm already meets the captcha requirements (albeit with extremely unnecessary additional steps).