I just can’t see it myself
Matched betting has been around for 15+ years and I can’t see it stopping.
Unless you are arbing then the left hand doesn’t tend to know what the right hand is doing
Heck even if bookies think you are taking advantage of bonuses too much they they just gub you and don’t shut down your account or anything.
I don't think it will stop, I just think allowing it at all is a business decision on their part.
The worst case scenario for matched betters is that bookies block your account from taking advantage of offers for a while, but even that is normally a temporary measure and doesn't stop you placing normal bets.
If you scam amazon out of an item then they block your account permanently, so why does the betting industry do things differently?
Their whole business is based around getting somebody to try betting a couple of times, and human nature means they'll probably try it again, but the barrier to entry is pretty high as far as knowledge goes and betting has an understandably bad reputation.
Matched Betting primes people with the knowledge they'd need to comfortably place regular bets, and associates betting with making money. Then they take away the offers that mean you're guaranteed to profit.
At that point you either stop betting with them, or you keep making regular bets until your account can take advantage of offers again.
I'm not saying matched betting is universally bad for us, I'm saying that the industry would fight back against it if it was bad for them on the whole.
Again, maybe there's something obvious I'm missing, but it seems like the only reason they'd take such small steps against matched betting is because it doesn't actually effect their profits on the whole.