It does, measurably. A massively popular site is going to get hammered with more advanced types of scraping, but they're going to have a team that can more easily mitigate it.
A site that doesn't care about corporate users basically loses nothing.
exactly, there are lots of other more effective ways to block the likes of you
Let's hope you enjoy killing your real userbase with collateral damage, because that's the only thing you are going to accomplish.