Bots aren’t people and can’t consent, sure - but they are tools that are wielded or deployed by people who absolutely can consent (setting aside whether click-wrap terms are enforceable or not). If I throw a brick through a window, it’s me in the shit, not the brick.
If I have an open door to my business and someone's automated robot walks in the door to see what's available, how is that different?
Even more applicable, this is like saying that a person walking down the street can't have a camera and take a picture of the front of the building....
Because the page you land on when entering a url is in fact little different than a store front, with the associated signage and access points defining how a person or automated device may interact with that business.
If you want to have it different then you have to actually put everything behind a locked door with no window, right?
