Preparation (DoL skill) - Reveals the conditions for obtaining HQ items while gathering

I've been seeing some lvl 70 gatherers using the skill each time they access a node. If they had it activated from the previous node, they will deactivate it upon accessing the next node and vice versa.

Is there any advantage to doing this? It's probably botting, but could they be that careless to leave such an obvious tell in their routine?