Heard about the Arkose sale tactics at Roblox (a site whose usability is also nuked by them)
I've been told Arkose pay people to run these captchas and present lots of fancy metrics of attacks they've stopped (when in reality with Captcha's like this a lot of that is normal users) which is why some websites seem to be ok with destroying user experience by running this
I'd be surprised if anybody in a technical role decided on this provider