i stopped worrying what the developer cares about anything as some bugs have been in the game for 14 years and never were solved (that SLA is definitely over the top)
also the bots have been here since forever and they didn't manage to stop it, neither NC nor GF - but in the good old times you had GMs actively killing one bot after the other (I was there in Morheim and watched :D)
regarding publisher, we still have "our" game - several other games were terminated, Tera, WildStar, SOLO.... idk whats better
and regarding certain legions/push money into the game for I don't know what reason or playing not legit - I recall a Spatalos divine siege where like the whole asmodian league disconnected - as players you had your suspicions, about this legion starting with RU and ending with FIA
not sure if it's true, but rumours had it NC actually paid off some Ely legions to switch to Perento I think (Spatalos and Telemachus being heavily Elyos dominated)