We were mad about bloated, unnecessarily large web pages taking 3 seconds to load. Now, it takes 8 seconds to first pass a "checking if you're a bot" page or worse - making you click on pictures of crosswalks.
And their a11y/internationalisation is horrid.
We have pedestrian crossings, not crosswalks. We don't have fire hydrants (instead a different solution). We don't have yellow schoolbuses. Our traffic lights look different (and have different names in different cultures). And those examples are just the obvious problems with some captchas. Usually there are more subtle problems with verification UIs.
*shows 4 photos with mopeds and 0 with motorcycles*
One way to look at this is that the internet is healing. Platforms are closing themselves off to growth and scabbing over.