Just bumping this, as I agree with @simon that this should be re-thought at some point.
A fair chunk of support requests for the WP Discourse plugin are actually readability crawling issues of some form or another.
I think that sums up my gut on this.
That said, I don’t have a great solution at the moment besides this.
But I’m keen to contribute to a better solution than the status quo, as it would reduce the WP Discourse support workload.