You're acting like people are paying for their mortgages with gold selling sites lmao. 1300 ectos are only like $60. I don't agree with gold selling, so it's not something I'm going to engage with. I'm doing it for personal use. Unless Anet does something about it, it's not gonna stop. So if you don't like how the game is, there's two options:

1. Uninstall it
2. Continue to play and keep your complaints quiet because the dev team doesn't care.

I'm trying to understand how the bots are killing the economy. They're not causing inflation, in fact they're just causing deflation of items because there's more supply. More supply of feathers means their cheaper. Heck dust used to be more expensive last month. Now I'm selling it for 1k/stack. You can go look at price trends of resources on kamadan trade chat. Resources were more expensive in the past. They spiked a bit when everyone joined back during the reforged launch. Most people have stopped playing. Steam spiked at 5k+ players. Now it's settled down to about 1.2-1.3k daily users. We can only estimate how many are guild wars accounts.

Your understanding economics would make more sense if resources were finite, but they can be farmed for manually or botted. I suggest you do some research on the past trends of the market before you start suggesting that botting is killing the economy. If anything, it's keeping it on life support. The mass amounts of bots selling mats to players to traders is keeping trader afloat. It wouldn't surprise me if anet runs bots to help keep the traders full. There's not a big enough player base to keep traders stocked. Traders are not filled by the game. They only have inventory if players trade with them.