I've said it already, but SE should update their tos to unequivocally legitimate the use of parsers, even if they don't want to provide an official one, because right now, considering how parsers are a vital part of the raiding community, their existence undermines the credibility of the tos.
Right, botting is not the same as parsing, but parsing helps legitimatize botting because it erodes the credibility of the ToS as you have mentioned. Ultimately, I agree with you in the way that Square-Enix should legitimize parsing, and then take a harder stance on botting. Modding seems ok as this game doesn't have any competition where turning the walls invisible would have any meaningful impact.