The things you say that I argue about and that makes me sad are listed below. "Questions" -Answers.

"Do you still like to play against me manually?"
-Sounds like you assume I would play a BH against you or anyone else in a challenge.

"You stopped asking me to practice after you recommended xbot to me."

-You said you didn't have time to practice anymore and were starting a business last time i asked. Then you his make it sound like I recommended xbot to you when in the reality i saw your matches and figured it out it was not you playing, This was like 4 months ago.
And I only recommended xbot to you because it doesn't charge anything for playing ladder for you like your current Archmage bot did.

"I think Peakmonster pirates are hated by most Silver Leaguers."

-No comment on this one this comment I treat it's from you only.

"And if you guys could imagine if you were not using BH, you would understand that better. I am sure you can imagine if you really like to play manual in this game."

-I have never used the BH. You make it sound like I need to imagine something about playing manual? Ladder have always been a bot grind and I have never played it. I play this game for brawls and challenges.

-Also I'm sure you can check the money being sent to the BH account and see for yourself who have used money on it. From your own guilds(based on a post on peakd in April) 3 players from SOG and 2 players from SS had sent money to the Battle helper.

"I have left everything to AM for one season and that tool was not top 10 anything.
Even with my card assets, I was in the top 20 or lower in Silver League LB."

-I'm pretty sure you don't play 4 games an hour in the other seasons, so you destroy this game just as much as I do and are always above my xbot grinding my soulbounds for me even when I rent all cards for every brawl.

"I understand the idea of a metagame, but do you think new players would willingly join Splinterlands, where metagames that ignore the inherent fun of the game are prevalent?"

-I believe that the bots are by far the biggest threat to this game and have been since 2019.
This is also the reason I never played this game until I decided to join a guild and play brawls, that made it competitive and fun.

"To me it seems like you guys are bringing guns to a game where you fight with swords and saying you are proud of this game."

-You can say this to yourself instead. We use a bot for the same reasons. I rather play my brawls and then play with my children.

If you don't see what I have tried to do for this game and also for you and your Japanese teammates maybe you should check the logs on your discord.