Honey's business model has always been obvious to anyone with any understanding of affiliate marketing, their innovation was that they created a browser extension: that's it. Coupon code websites were doing exactly the same thing for decades before, retailmenot being the one we're probably all familiar with from the early 2000s.
The claim that these influencers have lost affiliate commissions because Honey's method is true but it's also true that these influencers are losing affiliate commissions to one another. Amazon is the preferred e-commerce platform for affiliate marketing because they are extremely generous with how they attribute: if you click an Amazon affiliate marketing link and then make any purchase in the next 30 days the affiliate will get paid regardless of whether they were advertising the product you bought or not. And guess how Amazon attributes? Last click!
If Influencer A includes an affiliate link for "Expensive Camera" and Influencer B includes an affiliate link for "Cheap Toy" and you click on "Expensive Camera" then click on "Cheap Toy" and then buy the expensive camera, Influencer B is getting paid for that purchase expensive camera purchase, despite Influencer A influencing you to buy it.
Affiliate marketing is adversarial, it's a fight for attribution at the expense of everyone else. Holding Honey to a different standard isn't going to work for them. Wilful ignorance of how a company operates isn't a defence against being harmed by them, it's embarrassing.