Sadly I stopped playing several weeks ago again, maybe for good. All my stuff is just renting out and I don't even bother playing the market, adjusting things and all that lol. I don't pay for those bots managing my assets but the good thing I guess is that we have a rental market.
The bots are indeed problematic, but the challenge as well is if they are removed, how will we guarantee battles for the players in every single league? I don't know if we have enough human players at this point to do that.
I use splinterrents for my extras (on a different account), because I just can't be bothered managing it so closely now myself. It is too difficult and with all the costs, I would do a bloody poor job.
And this is the interesting thing - perhaps we should be attracting new players more than keeping old players happy all the time?