Agreed, not sure it makes them morons. The way their website scraper works is what makes me think they're morons. I opted to honeypot them in iocaine, because their access rate is absurd. On a typical day on my small website, they'll make nearly 550k calls, so averaging just above 6rps. Almost everyone else I honeypotted barely pushes 1 rps. Almost everything I see from Anthropic gives me the impression they're self-entitled jerks.

Anthropic are wicked smart, it's not fair to call them morons, BUT the ToS ban of subscribed, myself, and OpenAI might be useful data points suggesting Anthropic's API moderation behaviour can be strict. Anthropic are doing great work overall, but they have erred on the side of policy robustness, versus keeping API users happy. I said more in my sibling comment reply.