Agreed, I expect the window for profit on 5.3 gear won't even last a week and will be much smaller than previous patches and 5.4 will maybe last a few days. It's bot heaven really, easy to craft endgame gear in good demand made from easy to bot mats.

There has been a gathering bot on Zodiark for months now. I caught them in a dismounting/mounting loop at a timed node for 16 minutes straight and unresponsive, reported it, they're still there. It also seems their bot is capable of Extracting materia, so I assume craft bots are capable of the same, which is why grade 7 and 8 materia is almost worthless compared to the past.

They couldn't have set things up better for the bots. I'm baffled why they basically ripped DoH/DoL from those who enjoyed it and handed it over to bots.