Fell Cleaves...

[Alhanelem]

I grasp that there are lazy people. However, earning enough gil to fell cleave your jobs up is super easy.

It's not super easy enough. I don't think you grasp just how lazy the typical buyer of gil is. They buy gil because they want to play the game but don't really want to play it. Also a perequisite for having a million plus gil to cleave your jobs is having at least 1 job leveled already. It is not easy for a new player to make a million gil. They certainly can't do it fast. It doesn't matter how easy you personally think something is, there will always be someone too lazy to do it. It wasn't exactly rare for someone who couldn't be bothered to play the game and pay someone else to play their character for them before cleaves existed.

It's not really for us to judge.

Except it is for SE to judge, and I will judge it too because it is obviously shady to me. I don't care if you get snowed in. You don't have to spend every second on FFXI continuously performing the same activity. That would be suspicious to anyone in this game.

The fact of the matter is that SE should be doing their due diligence to make sure they don't ban long time dedicated customers like him just so that they can stop joey the pink ninja from buying gil.

Except in systematically obvious cases that can easily be detected by a scanning system like RMT PWNER, the ban button is pressed by a person who looks at the case before making a call. They're giving due diligence, because, like you said, unless you hate money, you don't ban people from your game unless it's a flagrant violation that is likely to have a negative effect on other paying customers, either directly or indirectly through disrupting the economy with RMT.