the only bots SE bans in waves in this game are the low hanging fruit... namely the barker bots advertising gil in major cities.

the market bots and harvest bots operate with impunity and zero repercussions. more recently the 4 person team in Japan, had been sent several report on map bots.

you can take a guess as to how many of those were or have ever been dealt with in a ban wave and are still operating. (I would say any number higher than 1 would be wrong but who knows)

for SE, it is apparent that unless they are singing in unison "we are bots we are bots, we are bots" in /yell and advertising the botting software... SE wont even bother them. period