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You're going to have to solve one of those anyway. Why not put it to good use? This isn't part of some evil master-plan Google's come up with. It was originally a project at CMU, and is now used to power what is probably the only neural network that can match whole house numbers (ie. without segmentation.) How is that bad for anyone? Personally, I really love Google's symbiotic model for data collection eg. Recaptcha/Google Maps, Ingress/Google Maps, etc.

That used to be the case, but both seem equally hard now - and are no longer recognisable words.

You realize the same exact thing could be said about video game designers, right?

Video game designers aren't forcing me to play their game in order to submit necessary forms.