Hi @nozem01,
I also did option 2 for a while. Main account played by a bot to gain as much as possible glint. My alt account in modern just accept you playing lower league (in my case bronze silver, with only 5K staked SPS). Must say i just enjoyed playing manually again less stress to gain all the glint just go with the flow.
Last season it sill became stressful because when i start i wanted to play at least 24 daily and that is a lot playing manually with already low spare time 🤣
haha yeah tell me about it! 😅 because I want to keep all options open I try to play as much on my alt as well to earn enough glint so it will have a nice reward set as well, it's fun but takes up a lot of time!