I've never understood why legit players (read: players that aren't RMT/gathering bots) would want to use a bot to play this game.
If you don't actually want to put the effort into playing this game, and would rather have a botting program do it for you, then you should probably stop paying your subscription.

And why would "top raiders" bot this game???? What purpose does that even serve????

I don't support the idea of botting ever being allowed by the ToS. That would just give the RMT/gathering bots more ways to get around SE's efforts to weed them out. Since botting would now be allowed, you would actually have to catch them in the act of RMT or advertising it to get rid of them.