Are most web users inconvenienced at all? People on Hacker News aren't typical, which probably results in installing more privacy-preserving technologies that trigger captchas.
The people of Hackers News aren't typical and usually have the latest and greatest when it comes to computer hardware and the latest software. Unlike everyone else on earth that doesn't care about such things and often runs old hardware and software and so encounter, and are blocked by, cloudflare's computational paywalls more often than a bleeding edge tech user would imagine.
i suggest talking to people about their experiences with tech. i've been surprised how much they've soured on it. and how aware they are regarding issues like privacy, effect on mental health, predatory business models etc. show them the wikipedia page for enshittification and they'll go 'oh so that's the word for it!". also i have VMs running completely vanilla browsers, connected directly to clearnet. and i still get captchas or outright blocks by normal websites like clothing retailers. the internet is a disaster for everyone at the moment