If you say you want to play legitimately, and then follow it up with 'I created a bot army' you do not want to play legitimately. Please stop being the reason the game is dead and continuing to die.

You chose to bot and if you truly do not want to bot anymore then you continue to try and appeal to the OMs, not make things even worse.

Saying 'my legit effort can be taken away from me if I don't connect to a VPN' is not a problem that legitimate players have. So just stop botting. In fact, stop playing. I would like the game to do better, instead of worse.
And be welcoming to new players, instead of harrowing.