Costs a lot of cycles to run those for real, and it’s not super common to get infected with anything, so you’re wasting cycles for a small chance at avoiding it. This could be better since, I assume, it doesn’t do a lot of stuff.
Author of scarecrow here. The idea is cyber scarecrow is just super easy and light weight for anyone to use. Honeypot tech tends to need some good tech understanding to use (eg the cli), and can be a bit heavyweight for always running in the background of your computer.