I believe in the past, this type of offense was just lumped together with the general "illicit activity" bans but presumably as a result of all the complaints in the live letter Q&A thread, they've separated it into its own category, which also seems to exclude those mass-produced, teleport hacking gil farmers who account for the vast majority of the bans.

Unfortunately, this does nothing indicate whether or not they've actually stepped up their efforts in this regard, since I've always heard scattered reports/claims about people being banned for botting throughout my time with the game, plus all of the usual suspects on my server are still kicking.

I'm still hoping they'll actually address the matter during the live letter instead of thinking this is going to appease people and ignoring the questions as a result.