I was under the impression that "bans for botting" was in reference to the other crowd of non-RMT bots that gather/craft/level/etc, since they're purging hundreds of RMT bots on a weekly basis and the most bloated figure is "RMT/illicit activites" which made me assume they were being shoved into that number.

Then again, 30 non-RMT bots banned across the entire game last week is like a drop in the bucket and unlikely to be noticed by anyone. There's probably close to 20 of them active every night on Cactuar alone and it's difficult to tell if they're getting banned or just not playing sometimes.