Just because twitter is a retarded place to have this argument ill write a few of my initial thoughts here:

Basically a lot of really big real-money betting sites are already in this space and more are looking to get in. The difference is these are in theory regulated so that under-age betting is much harder to do, which is a good thing. There are lots of other benefits with regulation and its actually a topic Ive been looking into lately but I wont go into that now.

There absolutely was a time where CS:GO viewership would have taken a huge dip if the APi had been restricted like this, because for a while a few sites became the only place people went to look for games basically. For a long time now these sites have lost that power partially because the CS:GO viewership is already mainly activated by bigger events, that people will generally watch just because.

Anyway, a fun thing maybe could be if some of these more well known sites that are regulated actually end up putting money back into the eco-system like they do in football(soccer if you love freedom), which would actually make for a much healthier system than one where people have to compete against the unregulated madness that was the skins gambling world.

I would still say a much greater threat to the health of the game, is over saturation and a lack of proper schedules which means there is just too much content.