Bots are a good thing in this game. I can get large quantities of shards and other crafting mats for quite resonable price from AH. Downside is the account theft and gold selling spam business around it. But that has more to do with ppl not managing their passwords properly then SE:s fault.

Another reason why bots do not harm in this game is that DoH/DoL are completly separate game from DoW/DoM there is practially 0 interaction between them (other then token farm for 50+ materials.) So the only economy in this game is based around ppl leveling up crafting jobs and needing mats for it so thats not really even a real "economy" and it deserves to die in its current state.

But dont get me wrong i would ban every cheater from the game if there was a magic button for it. But its just not going to happen in modern mmo's and the companies know that. Thats why they dont even try to waste loads of salary expenses for GMs try to ban bots/hackers. Even if they get banned they will be back in 5mins with new or stolen accounts. But ofc they will still ban few ppl here and now for show. Otherwise it would be huge shitstorm when masses would realize they dont even try nor waste resourses for that stuff.