Bots are not meant to be cash machines, they are meant to be promotional tools.
I agree with this statement 100%. There’s nothing wrong with paying bots to promote your content. That’s what would sustain this business on the long term.
But once bots become cash machines to extract money from the system without adding any significant value in return in the form of quality content, then this platform will have a problem on the long run. It won’t be able to sustain itself. The developers need to do something about this problem in order to make it a sustainable business.