While the whole "bots exist because people keep buying gil"or w/e argument is valid-ish, my one wishful thinking dream for this situation would be for SE to develop a means to seriously crack down hard on the wall/floor hacking "teleporting" the botters get away with. It wouldn't solve everything. Maybe nothing would change, and we'd just start seeing all the bots out in the open. They've probably got plenty of other tools to mitigate the danger of down time for the bots. And yeah, it'd probably have a negative impact on players, seeing bots be even more obvious than they already are. But maybe that'd set off a reaction to really knock them down if the player base starts getting put off by how rampant botting is.

Or, maybe that's exactly why they don't do anything about it. As long as the bots stay mostly out of sight, they can be a little less intrusive.

Idk. I used to try reporting them. But it's an awful tedious process, especially trying to type out their names, and I'm kinda at a state where I just expect the STF is likely plenty capable of spotting the bot accounts with each ban wave. I'm probably overestimating their abilities/resources, but, eh, my game time is limited, I'd rather spend it playing instead of mini-modding.