Not sure why every assumption is that people are "afk botting" all day. I'm sure there are some out there who've wrangled a basic VB script to quote shakespeare to their summoning bell, but a lot of us now work from home and it's trivial to set a timer for 25 minutes to poke your game manually.

I craft and gather during my breaks in the daytime hours. I can't run dungeons or any other more time demanding content until I'm off work, but I'm doing the most selfish tasks during the off hours when the queue is the standard "load no more than 100 people at a time" hours (mine was 44 when I logged in.) Then sticking with group content when my friends can log in, so the get the benefit of me playing. And then logged off pretty early to free up a slot. (I've gone to bed earlier in the last week than I had in the last year.)