I feel like the community is going to face a reckoning if they keep pushing to curb third-party applications.

Bots are obviously the most 'devious' example, but look at all the people who mod their characters to be naked, and then all the people who use ACT to handle mechanic call-outs and damage meters. The issue is that 'all' of these things fall under the exact same umbrella as third-party application use that violates the ToS. And given just how large the modding/ACT community is, I can't imagine Square-Enix effectively going after bots without catching a lot of non-botters (but equally guilty) abusers in the cross-fire. And I honestly don't think those nude-mod dudes and dudettes are going to forfeit their mods on the principle of getting rid of bots. They'll get angry, and the community will suffer for it.