Nah, you’re a robot man. We caught you.

That’s what a bot would say /s

But you’re right, the UX sucks, and there are other ways to detect and limit bots that don’t impact legitimate users as much - but Google needs to train their AI, and developers need to cargo cult stuff.

These things feel like they are made by microsoft. You click somewhere, wait 3-10 seconds and then you can click again.

A bot trying to solve the captcha would be very fast so it makes sense that they block fast solvers.