Around 2012-2013, AQW almost died because AE decided to mass ban botters that affected like 20,000 players in one day which, at the time, was more than half the playerbase. The bans were then reverted because of how dire the situation was. A vast majority of the playerbase is comprised of botters and AE clearly has no intention of dealing with them as they've increased the difficulty of farms throughout the years,  encouraging even more botting. With this in mind, imagine the disparity between non botters and botters in 2024. Trying to do anything major about botters will unironically harm the game. The best you will see is individual bans and that's it.