A week or two ago, I queued for an EX trial with a full group and got a "Reserving Server" message and a wait time.

Remembering that the company chest in Ul'dah had bots inside it for the last 2 weeks queuing for instances, I did a World player search, lv50-50 and the entire list, except 4 players, were BLM bots. The full 200/200, all bots, all queuing for an instance. In fact, 200 was just the view limit, there might have been a thousand for all I know.

I'm baffled anyone can say it's always been like that, I've never seen so many bots active that they literally choked out the instance servers.