The vast majority of tech recruiters have no actual idea of how skilled their employee-side client is and are just keyword correlation machines that happen to be made of meat.
As such I doubt it impacts them much, if at all, beyond the obvious disappointment of not getting the salary cut, which they surely mitigate by just throwing candidates until one sticks.
As such I doubt it impacts them much, if at all, beyond the obvious disappointment of not getting the salary cut, which they surely mitigate by just throwing candidates until one sticks.