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No, it is proof that they are parasitically extracting money via non-productive strategies like latency arbitrage and order front-running.

Liquidity provision is valuable though, and it's not really parasitic to exploit inefficiencies, it's not even that profitable a strategy today.

It isn't nearly valuable enough to compensate for the wealth HFT extracts from the market.

your information seems to be at least a decade out of date

Which is changing market conditions.