This is interesting, but unfortunately it's a gradient on an infinite game of cat and mouse.
If blocking doesn't work, there will be phone verification. If that doesn't work you're gonna need to get orbed. If that doesn't work, you're gonna need to drink the verification cans. Or they will just kill the free tiers. There is no free lunch.
No because it's not an abuse to block. The thread converged upon that mistaken idea, but that's not the reality.
The reality is it's just a CLI that makes Actions more useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982915