Gotta agree.
Every game has RMT problems, and restrictions just create unhappy players.
Yes, bots are bad. So ban them, ban the players who buy silver from them. I’d rather have to deal with goldseller spam than have restrictions that make playing with friends counter-productive and punishing. ToS is looking less and less like an MMO thanks to these.
It’s a simple choice, really - you either have a game full of angry, complaining players who suffer because of restrictions and RMTers are STILL present, or a game where you have to make more of an effort to combat RMT, but players are happy. And last time I checked, no game ever has measured success in terms of “we have less RMT problems”. It’s the players that should matter, I think.