I work with a lot of Etsy sellers and the parts of this I am familiar with and can confirm are:
* resellers - I see lots of sellers with thousands or tens of thousands of products. These sellers are obviously not making craft items. Etsy does nothing to limit this from what I've seen and experienced. And come on, I'm sure Etsy makes more money from these sellers, so what's their incentive to stop them (other than killing their platform).
* extreme AI actions - If you build an app to connect to Etsy's API, you'll need to test it of course. Except that Etsy's AI will ban your account for performing any testing. I hope you don't use that app to support hundreds of Etsy sellers, because they all get screwed. Wait several days to hear back, and then they tell you some silly tricks to avoid getting caught by their AI when testing next time. No real test environment and no promise they won't turn around and ban you again tomorrow for the same thing.
It feels like they're slowly building another Amazon, and haven't learned any lessons other than that's where the money is.
* resellers - I see lots of sellers with thousands or tens of thousands of products. These sellers are obviously not making craft items. Etsy does nothing to limit this from what I've seen and experienced. And come on, I'm sure Etsy makes more money from these sellers, so what's their incentive to stop them (other than killing their platform).
* extreme AI actions - If you build an app to connect to Etsy's API, you'll need to test it of course. Except that Etsy's AI will ban your account for performing any testing. I hope you don't use that app to support hundreds of Etsy sellers, because they all get screwed. Wait several days to hear back, and then they tell you some silly tricks to avoid getting caught by their AI when testing next time. No real test environment and no promise they won't turn around and ban you again tomorrow for the same thing.
It feels like they're slowly building another Amazon, and haven't learned any lessons other than that's where the money is.