I agree that botting is problematic for all the reasons you've stated, but SE will never give the issue the attention it deserves for two reasons. The first is that they (the XIV division or whatever) likely don't have the resources to strictly enforce this. Maybe they ban someone once in a while, but they don't have the staff for people to go around banning bots 24/7. The second is that they're still making money off of botters. Those people are paying for accounts and in some cases extras like retainers.

Until tons of people start quitting in protest or SE's board of directors decides to properly staff and fund their mmo division, nothing will ever be done about botters.