> most of the parties operating web sites are themselves bad actors

Wait, what? “Most” by percentage of people who operate at least one website, or by percentage of websites that are “bad”? The latter maaaybe, given auto-generated web spam (“words-with-seven-letters-and-2-ms.html”)?

But to the extent some hotels, airlines, retailers, etc, decide they don’t want my agent and will only sell to me if I personally drive the web browser… sorry, my agent will shop elsewhere.

Economics change, since an agent can comparison shop exhaustively in a way I can’t, but at the end of the day I expect the accountants device that any sale is better than no sale.