Honestly I don't really want to waste too much time with preambles and some such nonsense, seeing that most likely nothing is going to come out of this anyway.

I am a bit disheartened by the inaction against bots.
I have reported a squad of bots about a dozen times over the past weeks and months and urged other players to do the same, yet they are still going strong. Not one of them has been banned so far and they continue in their merry bot routes every day.
They are super easy to spot, too. All it takes is for someone to go there and watch them go, literally flying the exact same route pixel perfect. They aren't even attempting to hide it, and why would they? Nothing is being done anyway.

So if you want to get a glimpse at SE's inactivity about bots, feel free to visit Twintania and the area just outside of Aporia in Labyrinthos every time the ephemeral Botanist nodes are up and you can watch them go round and round.
You can do the same with the other ephemeral nodes as well, of course.

So yeah, I am super frustrated that nothing is being done against bots that flood the market board with those supposedly rare and hard to come-by resources, which makes it somewhat pointless to farm those for Gil as a player since you'll be competing with bots who like to post dozens of stacks of those every day.

What else can we players do, really, aside from reporting them and watching them continue their bot activity for months without anything happening?