A lot of people seem to operate under the illusion that the only bots in the game are those teleporting gil farmers you see in ARR areas when they can be found in virtually all forms of content.

As far as I've noticed, the only time people actually get semi-reliably punished is if their program glitches out and has them repeating a fruitless sequence of actions for hours on end and that same player is also reported by several different people, as a couple of cheaters did get removed from the Firmament rankings, but far more did not.

I'd agree that the weekly ban reports honestly are probably encouraging people to start cheating now that they've made a distinction between the bots that are easily discernable as being RMT-related and the ones that are more ambiguous. It's rare to see even a single temporary ban in the figures when an average server tends to have dozens of people automating the farming of DoH/L items.