All I know is that me and a GM could fix this problem on our server in one Saturday afternoon if I took them around Ulda to show them all the afk crafters, then out to view the shardbotters in their native environs. Craftbotter by day. Shardbotter by night.

SE either knows and doesn't fully understand what it's doing to their product, or doesn't know. Both are equally ridiculous. Every day that botters continue their parasitism, the more and more people who would otherwise have played the game legitimately turn to cheating.