Agreed that the bots are a problem upsetting game play balance, fairness and reward versus effort. SE need to stop ignoring the crafting/gathering/market bots.

But there are still plenty of ways to profit off crafting. The bots don't control the entire marketboard. Find the underserved portions of the market and sell those items. Profit is profit, whether it's 10k per item or 100k, and many times those 10k profit items sell much more rapidly than the 100k profit items, more than making up the difference.