As part of my work, I've had to learn some automation to implement in GUI testing.

I can safely say that anyone who has the interest in learning how to automate crafting and has an inclination towards using it as an unfair advantage (cheaters) can easily figure out how to write a script to automate simple synths, so I don't think that having SE making a legal way to do it would make that much of an impact.

That being said, I spent about 2 hours hasty handing shards from fish since I was running out and was kinda poor. The process left me feeling as if my brain was going to start bleeding out of my nose. The only thing I noticed in this extended session of boredom was that the system auto-booted me from the crafting interface presumably while taking somekind of information to determine whether I was an RMT or bot every now and then (since I'm thinking that it would be VERY easy to script around that kind of occurence if it only takes you out of the crafting interface).

Anyhow, I'd certainly appreciate being able to setup somekind of way to make automatic crafting. I wouldn't mind it having a higher chance of failure if I can avoid spamming enter and arrow up for 2 hours just for some shards. Perhaps they can keep flagging accounts to notice if some users are doing this 24/7?

Edited to separate first sentence from rest of paragraph.