On SL being offended by data extractors, I'd quote the immortal Yahtzee Croshaw:
"(That ship) has sailed, circumnavigated the globe, and returned to port laden with exotic spice!"
More seriously, it would probably be harder for SL to continue developing the game without the data miners as we've become for all practical purposes her unpaid QA department, and it's becoming very difficult to keep track of all the variables.