Why is 'Bot Fight Mode' opt-in?

I have to ask out of curiosity and since it isn’t addressed somewhere. Why is the new ‘Bot Fight Mode’ opt-in?

The blog post is very optimistic and positive. And it definitely sounds good. But it’s still disabled by default (?).

That makes me wonder about the disadvantages. Can ‘Bot Fight Mode’ negatively affect sites? What are the risks and drawbacks?

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1176171865351626752?s=21

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yap, there is a lot of sites and use cases for using ‘good bots’ I guess in some cases it can think that some of your good bots is a bad one and block it and make some features of whatever you was doing broken

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