How is the botting situation in this game?

[Nepentha]

But that problem is less about bots and more about accessibility. Whatever is very low cost but high reward is going to result in more people going that route. If you made bots disappear with the snap of a finger, you still likely wont be making tons of money because you have less buyers (yes bots buy mats from the MB because at times its more cost effective to do so) with more competition from the average player farming and selling easy-to-come-by materials.

Nah, not true. After one notorious botting ring suddenly fell off the radar for a week, prices returned to a healthy level. People were still buying the materials. Just the gil went to actual players rather than said botter.

This, btw doesnt even account for how market prices would fluctuate without bots. We are assuming that if an item sells for 100k with bots, that without bots it might sell higher. But that may not be necessarily the case. It could end up selling lower because there is less GIL in circulation so prices would be lower simply because people dont have money to afford said price points.

See this is a common misconception. People get all fussy that prices would get higher so no one could afford anything. Not really. With the markets returning to the players rather than the bots, people would be able to make more money and they'd have it to spend on items that have a higher cost.