most of those bot accounts are bought with stolen credit card information so they're not really fronting much cost themselves.

bots that farm fates are farming gil from them to sell online to RMT buyers. yes it's 2022 and yet people are still buying gil online with real money. the market is there.

gathering bots are much harder to detect and investigate. the Special task force has to be absolutely sure they can prove that they're bots before they can take any action on them.