Yep. That is very true and the game changer. Sure the large entities could scrape it too but it does provide access to smaller ones.
And if we start putting more into public databases, it will not be only relegated to the major companies that can pay for access.
Until we turn our backs on them and begin to cooperate rather than fight like dogs.
We have to have workers, we don't have to have dollars.™
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
IF the accounting department fell off into a lake the line workers would never know the difference until they went to the store and everything was free.
All this requires is that folks be willing to continue doing the work they are already doing but for a fraction of its true value in dollars.
Adults can solve this locally.
We don't have to have banksters in bunkers telling us how things are gonna be.