The current state of Cosmic Exploration rewards cheaters

[Volgia]

Lol its not the macros that are cheating. Its the use of a 3rd party tool that uses those macros for you while you afk or do whatever it is that you're doing. Why they worded their post this way idk but surely you and others aren't naive enough to think they are strictly talking macros here.

It's cuz I don't really understand how it works. It's a third party tool that plays the game for you while you do other stuff?

[VeyaAkemi]

It's cuz I don't really understand how it works. It's a third party tool that plays the game for you while you do other stuff?

There is a specific plugin that is capable of repeating crafts and execute macros, it is also capable of handling macros better than the game itself since it won't be affected by lag spikes, it will repair your gear when it hits a specific, configurable threshold, and extract materia when you get to spiritbond 100, both being configurable in themselves and even having the option to straight up disable them if you want to for whatever reason, normally people who use that will do so in privacy, since the behavior from it can be... suspicious, but people can be shameless about it and there is no way to prove they are doing anything, as "it looked odd" isn't enough evidence.

[Valence]

It's cuz I don't really understand how it works. It's a third party tool that plays the game for you while you do other stuff?

There is various degrees of third party tools for crafting, starting with teamcraft, but also the website raphael that auto solves recipes with your own stats and spits out macros you can use. Then there is the illegal things I don't think should be explained over public forums that are directly tied to ingame mods and do the same thing, solve macros.
If there is actual botting solutions that repeat things and literally play the game for you though, I 1) don't know about them and 2) that sounds like the best way to get banned for botting.