Quote Originally Posted by Lastelli View Post
Wasn't this obvious already with how boring, repetitive, mindless, time consuming and at the same time convoluted crafting and gathering are?

It is my belief that when players resort to bots, it's because there's a fundamental problem with content itself: it's not enjoyable.
Then all content has a fundamental problem. There will never be any content universally loved by all players so there will always be someone looking to bot their way through it if a reliable bot can be programmed for that content.

A more likely explanation is the fundamental problem lies with the player. An intelligent person will find something else to do if they're not enjoying the content, and forego getting the associated rewards. The lazy and/or entitled player will resort to bots because they believe they deserve the reward even if they don't want to put in the effort.