> Their growth and “success” is fueled by either operating in a legal gray zone, or defying the local regulations all together.

We just got an impossible vaccine in under a year, I'm happy for all of medicine to spend a bit of time in a "legal gray zone" to see what might happen.

> Many people all over the world think their lives were made much worse since Airbnb is negatively affecting the long-term rental market.

Absolutely, just like the Luddites (Although they would be well off Luddites) their world is worse. But humanity has been made far better.