Maybe for the better.
I've been playing on e-global since before Eternal server existed, but last season was probably the worst so far. Just the amount of auto farm box/bots everywhere.
Every zone was full of 'trains' and after extensive discussions with admins in discord - IT IS ALL OK, as its - 'for people who don't have time to play'. But in reality every top-pak run a train party in second/third window.
I think its time masterwork chooses a side: disable auto-farm and cyclic-macros or go all in and implement full on auto farming like on newest versions of l2.
As current approach both enables undetected botting, which you cannot detect as people "probably just auto farming" and everyone has a box summoner who just sits in cc all the time. Current masterwork version is less about lineage but more about "manage 3 windows of boxes and 3 more windows on second laptop at the same time - or lock you account with pin and buy a driver".