I’m torn on the “writing for robots.” On one hand you’re writing a blog for the internet and people/robots are free to do what they want with that info.

Yep. This is true. I wasn’t meaning it in the sense of blocking robots. More of a practical sense, if traffic continues falling and the only traffic you see is robots, in effect you are writing for robots. And that’s when the rewards you outlined no longer apply.

I hope that Bing and ChatGPT can further the work to cite sources. That will go some way towards helping the situation I believe.