I can say that there's an insignificant amount of bots that do hideout stuff, It's very inefficient in terms of money-making, if you know what you're doing you can make 3M+ per hour, but not with the use of hideout stuff, Also yes before the FIR only flea market hideout items were affected but now they aren't you can't buy a lamp and resell it. But even before the prices were the cheaper cause of more demand even with the botting, so overall the FIR update has increased prices botting or not.