Presumably they were paid for finding the bug and inn accepting relinquished their right to blog about it.

No, you relinquish the right when you agree to their TOS irrespective of if they pay you.

TOS != law

They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.

I don’t want to pay for a lawyer to argue that for me. != law does not equate to ‘won’t come with a cost’.

I say this as someone threatened by a billion dollar company for this very thing.

Up until Van Buren v. United States in 2020, ToS violations were sometimes prosecuted as unauthorized access under the CFAA. I suspect there are other jurisdictions that still do the equivalent to that.

Being a sellout is weak and sad.