Your hyperlink turns up nothing. I'm sorry, do you have some real complaint about the STF or GMs, you know... maybe something that's rampant in the game that they aren't doing enough to fix? (I'm totally setting you up for an easy one here, I'll be really disappointed if you don't get it.... but I'm also prepared for it...) Or are you just upset that they took away your breeze geode farm?

If I'm busting my arse to get a few avatarites and see people automated flood farming it's no different then what these snm are doing.
You realize, they aren't botting those geodes for their own trials, right? (you also realize those chigoes shouldn't be dropping __ite because they're not a high enough level...?) What's the average playtime of an FFXI player? Let's be generous and say it's 6 hours a day. 6 hours a day they get to bust their arse and sell their spoils for gil. Now let's compare that to the average bot. 24 hours a day they get to relax and do whatever they want and sell 4x the spoils for gil. Do you know what that does to the market?

as they don't disrupt the game by screwing over others
I'm glad you're not one of the people being screwed over by it, but that doesn't mean people AREN'T being screwed over by this very mechanic which you are ambivilent towards. What do you make your gil off of? Now imagine a bot can make 4x as much per day off it as you, and they don't even have to be at their keyboard.

IMO, GMs should hunt down absentee players as much as police hunt down counterfeiters.