Now imagine that knife stabbings became so common that almost everyone started wearing body armor and you start selling body armor defeating knives explicitly. I can honestly see why most people would be upset about that.

I don't see that as a good analogy. There's very limited space for this functionality to be used legitimately / legally - anyone permitted to scrape content is likely able to access the data without the protection measures in the way.

I'm fairly sure circumvention is a (prosecuted!) crime in several countries - curious if you're across that angle, and/or have legal advice/direction you can share?