They at least try to improve the game . Only thing we can tell you is that before the update all ksro servers were Crowded/Populated, one was easy and now one of them is populated and the rest is easy. So it must have changed something. We see a lot going on in SRO from Joymax's side to make the game better and we try not to see everything as another way for them to make money. We think they finally start to care a little about their customers' game experience.
And many goldbots have gap 9 in order to stay a long time at the mobs they are grinding on and collect as much gold as possible, so they should at least have a harder time fighting mobs 6 levels lower than 10 or more. And we gotta love the statue, it might even be bad for player bots although GMs have to be active, first maybe they should give every player one statue every week/month so that they can do something themselves.