Do you think SE would have to take some sort of action to continuing protect the much larger casual player base over the much smaller and using non sanctioned tools high end progression group.
Squeenix needs to realize this isnt 1999 and you cant force people to play full screen where alt-tab crashes your game.

That was the first couple years of EQ, and people tolerated it, because hey, this is new and exciting.

And those of us who raided parsed combat logs at the end of the night because we didnt have a way to measure dps in game or in real time, but still needed to know who was worth keeping around and who wasnt.

And when the next wave of MMO's came out, the raiding community, as a whole, said "we need tools to figure out whats going on". And devs listened. And either implemented those tools or allowed those tools to exist.

We're 20 years later, and we're still using timed enrage as a wipe mechanic in MMO's, which means people who raid still need to be able to tell who is pulling their weight and who is terrible to the point you cant realistically save them from themselves.