Understandable, and yet none of that makes it ok.

> it's entire purpose is literally to make the website more enjoyable for the good users.

There are people who actually enjoy using LinkedIn?

>Linked in is heavily scraped by scammers who do the BEC scams.

It's also heavily scraped by businesses for lead generation for sales and recruiting. Either before their API became available or to not pay them or to get around the restrictions of their API.