In regards to business model, not really. They're literally changing their business model from the ground up. You can't "break" something that doesn't exist yet. They could have offered reasonable API costs. They did not. They could easily monetize third party apps. It's clear however that spez is just a jealous shithead. He's upset they made profit when he didn't and doesn't like that someone found a way to be profitable. Reddit could have offered the same features and app reliability. They did not.

Scraping is very easily blocked which is likely what they'll do if forced to do so. They are probably just including scraping clauses in their agreements. So RIF will have to adhere to those agreements because they'll probably have to accept them to even gain access. St that point it's a legal mire. If they want to avoid court, it could just be an arms war. Scraping is extremely easily broken and would constantly need updating. It's not cost effective from a developer point of view.