Bot is part of the solution when players are below Diamond level but it will be an issue for above, as they do need to paid a large amounts to gather the great team to battle with others. The issue to be addressed is there are not much players playing or not being than easy to entry or attractive?
What I'm saying is, more than half of my Steemian (I guess have less or no playing game experience) found it so hard to win, even the ranking of them is around 100(?), I'm serious, and that's really disappoint them or discourage them to keep moving.
A great or long lasting game is the one which can start easy but getting difficult at last(or finish). In the world of Steem Mosnters, it should be up until certain level like 399 Ranking/699 Ranking, so that the Steemians can experience certain fun before they really got beating hard(or stuck) by other players/bots.
As part of the solution, bots have certain affords to help the game to have fun(it enable more/easy matching at first). But bots shouldn't prefer at the Arena level of the game(Diamond or above).
Your conclusion is same as mine(or mine is same as yours).
And, I really appreciated @clove71 and her sharing!!