One thing that happens when you learn to build web things using React before learning html, is that you don't care about links.
When I joined my team, all links were buttons, random elements, or <a> with onClick. Nobody complained, but that meant ctrl click was useless, right click did not give you the options you wanted.
This is the only thing I'm a dictator about. There is zero room for negotiation when it comes to links.
In my experience, people were abusing links and making everything a button without React. The actual defining attribute - IMO - is that they didn't care about web semantics.
I think this question is important because it gives the decision back to content creators, and that's where I think it should be, as a point of principle.
The alternative - and this is what I think will happen - is that LLM scrapers will just start to ignore the instructions to go away once it becomes clear that no content creators want their work to be scraped for nothing in return. So 'AI' users will continue to get free stuff, but at the expense of everyone they stole from.