Comment by duskwuff

> bugs out and makes it so you'll spend 5+ minutes going through 5 or 6 rounds of matching images because it oddly fails.

That isn't just a reCaptcha thing. HCaptcha will definitely do that as well -- and if anything it's worse, because some of the "identify this AI-generated image" challenges are pretty awful. (At one point, I recall it asking me to "select the ladybugs" with nine images all containing round spotted bugs in slightly different shades of red and orange.)