1+ years ago when players with ZERO game skill were making easy fortunes selling crab bow +3's at a time when 50 crafts were not so prevalent I can understand the frustration. Now... who cares? Botters aren't worth celebrating and throwing a national holiday for but I don't exactly lose any sleep over them, either. There's an abundance of 50 crafters and 50 gatherers now where making huge fortunes in the current market requires some intelligence and market foresight and not just a bot program. The wealthiest player I know makes his money on a keen understanding of the market.

And manaburning Garuda? Who cares?

The relaunch of 2.0 is fast approaching and if this game is going to be worth playing long term its content will be such that nobody will care in the slightest that someone who couldn't beat Garuda through all her phases has a Garuda primal weapon because of a BLM burn.
Do you honestly believe if Odin and other high level open world HNMs are released that people are going to be judged on how many Garuda weapons they have? People incapable of defeating something like Garuda without an `exploit` will be back at the back of the line with capable and skilled players dominating their servers.

Capable and skilled players, not fish-bots, craft-bots, and "Garuda exploiters".
If you're worried about people being propelled into FFXIV super stardom because they got a Garuda wand from a BLM burn let me put your little heart at ease.

They won't be.