then we have established you are fine with being falsely accused of something and banned for it, meanwhile plenty of retards high-five each other about mass-banning in other online games for the sheer audacity of players determining their gold/items are worth any amount of real money and trading.

Also, the exploit was not a bot-exclusive problem... Plenty of people figured out that opening multiple accounts was a way to farm rewards. It would be like having every new hive account start with $1000 worth of hive power and pretending it's only an issue with automation involved - the automation would simply scale the abuse into a higher level than individual people, but individual people would still be prone to opening 50 hive accounts to reap rewards, and when that was fixed plenty of them would complain. It's basically the same thing here. The spellbook was overpowered (and realistically, it still is)