After 4 days of waiting in que for 3+ hours just to play for 2-3 hours because I have a normal job, I'm constantly logging in in the morning and bringing up the aetheryte/whatever menu to stay logged in. If you don't feel right doing it, you be you, but I'm not paying to wait in que half of my normal playtime. They won't ban anyone for it, and if you don't like waiting for now either you can move or SE needs to upgrade their servers, they're the one that saw the congestion on HW launch and still let people come onto these high populated servers through payment or late night workarounds