Hello!
As a bot developer, i just want to answer this topic.
About the raid finder, this is also depends on the AA for example in IoM we also teach how find a target in the old fashionable way, rely only on the bot is not a smart thing from my view.
For the warfare, it's the same thing i don't rely on my bot or other bot for manage a war only my little brain.
Econ : I find my self pretty good with the "automation" of this part, i'm lazy too.
Recruitment : I personally answer all in-game messages i receive from new players, but i have to agree about receving around 50 messages in the first 60 seconds.
The definition of automation (based on my conversation with alex) is where the bot automate a function (don't you say) and all bot i encountered until now (mine too) don't automate a function, it's just make your life easier but you still need to make a lot of thing on your own for use that function.
A possibile solution for keep track what a bot from alex, is to create a category-channel in the official discord server with all the bot developer, where he can ask clarification or something.