I look at it more simplistically. Is it fun to play, yes or no? Right now, for me, tournaments are not because the same bots dominate them by sheer weight of numbers, regardless of what the level the tournament is set at.
Is there a place for bots? Yes, probably. Are the low ranked bots destroying it moreso than the high ranked ones? Almost certainly.
Heading over to read your piece now.
I find playing the game fun as a human, but I used a maxed and full deck and beat the bots. Humans right now are better than bots.
Yeah we need to deal with the lower rated spam bots, but no one has.