Exactly, it's the same as Cloudflare captchas where only certain blessed devices and browsers can seem to actually pass it. Ironically, adding Anubis accelerates the death of the open web.
There can't be a truly open web if the guys with all the resources in the world have the incentive to absolutely crush you by draining all of your resources.
They won't crush you out of malice, but by accident, like an ant.
Not a fan of either solution, but the sites simply going offline does not promote an "open web" either.