I don't think you need to try to die on this hill (primarily remarking w.r.t. your lumping in Anubis with Cloudflare/Google/et al. as one). In any case, I'm not appreciating the proliferation of the CAPTCHA-wall any more than you are.

The mascot artist wrote in here in another thread about the design philosophies, and they are IMO a lot more honorable in comparison (to BigCo).

Besides, it's MIT FOSS. Can't a site operator shoehorn in their own image if they were so inclined?