I really want to see what these numbers look like on the 1st after all the 3rd party clients are dead. Presumably that will also kill most of the bots as well. I suspect the numbers don’t look worse because a significant chunk of the post and comment traffic is automated which will stop working at the end of the month.
Before there was python, before there was node, there was perl. It’s old, it’s crufty, it’s a product of a bygone age, but even today if you want to do something with regular expressions and ingesting text it’s still one of the easiest options. Of course it’s highly debatable if you should ever use regex to ingest text.