For 2 years since I have been involved in Splinterlands, all I have heard is that the team is agnostic to bots and that they only want to ensure bots don't give any advantage.  They are against bot farms since they take away too much value but for a bot account that invests in cards apparently it was fine.  Why would the team suddenly decide to change this approach.  Some people may have planned around those statements, so we need to be careful.