I think the worse part about the ones botting for gathering is it kinda taints the title/achievements. Instead of seeing someone who put in the hours manually, people will be skeptical "Did they bot tho? Did they truly earn it?" ruining it for the people who are actually trying to give it their all without cheating. Sucks either way.

As for crafting I had assumed from the get go experts were meant to disrupt the chance you can bot those and I think you can't due to all the different effects but I don't craft much so idk if people can program bots easily to deal with it.