The gil they make from farming Amdapor Keep is much more then they get from the ARR MSQ for the time investment, but the amount from the latter definitely isn't negligible (It's close to 500K if I recall correctly?). I guess even if they did axe the gil drops, they might just decide to switch to running the MSQ full time to make gil and possibly produce even more bots to compensate for the slower gains.

They're definitely a tougher nut to crack then the "real" bots owned by players for gatherng, crafting, etc.

As as aside, I'd really love to know what's going through the heads of these players who are so obsessed with making gil through less then legit means in the first place. I feel like they have a problem for some of them to be buying additional retainers/accounts just so they can store more gil and/or run more bots (Though if they were secretly running a RMT business on the side then that would explain it). I guess if I look at it that way, they seem more sad and pathetic then anything else, because they're basically ruining the economy just for the sake of sating a silly obsession that's also costing them extra money out of their wallets.