What is ridiculous take? Authors want to sell access to information they've collected, improved, filtered, and so on. They invested tremendous amount of effort into making this available to you for a very low price (less than $1/month). The sharing is implemented the certain way, super inconvenient - but you have been informed multiple times in advance, and accepted that.

> There were no such restrictions on books after you legitimately purchased them for hundreds of years now.

For hundreds of years there were no book pirates, and computers. Even libraries buy books so they can share to a limited audience.