Comment by josteink

> If you are able to hold together an audience by banning automated tools, you might had suboptimal software but you might keep the actual goal

If the result of your software project is suboptimal software compared to what others are achieving, what was really the goal you say you get to keep?

If your argument is to hold together, the goal must have been something besides the software.

To be clear, this is fair, but then you cannot claim to primarily have been working on a software project, but something else.