I seriously do not care about Bots that much, until they try to monopolize a certain Farming-Spot or Items. There was a group with a FC on Hyperion botting Apkallu-Eggs, crafted the food, sold it. They also botted PvP and certain other things and i have reported them up to a dozen times A DAY. I have not seen them since a month now and if you check their Lodestone it seems they stopped playing. So i guess they finally received the ban, all of them.

It is hard for SE to actually confirm if it is a bot or not. They need to have actual evidence to ban them, so if people wonder why certain bots/rmt are still there:

1. They are smart enough to not get caught, even if it is obvious to a player.
2. They are not monopolizing or do not have an impact on the actual economy.
3. They are simply not bots.

You can easy macro a full recipe and just click 1 button here and there, people do not have to answer your tells, hardcore farmers do exist and do that for hours without using 3rd party tools and also certain RMTs do not bot at all. RMT's receive a ban if SE has evidence they are involved in RMT activities, which has hardly anything to do with botting.