Yeah I'm still playing, hit 50 about a week ago.
http://na.aiononline.com/livestatus/character-legion/search?charID=13021&serverID=5
The end game pve is limited (Dark Poeta is 6man), and world bosses don't take more than 12 competetant players. I've never done Zapiel/Jesuchi, but I'm told you can 6-8 man them. Storm Circle bosses can be 6 manned easily aside from Bollvig.
I play this game for PVP, and while Dredgion is the closest thing to "fair" pvp, there are still issues like being able to solo surkanas and train mobs on the other team.
Not to mention balance issues with fear and fear shriek, but thankfully, we have 2 50 SMs in our guild, one of which is a regular on my Dredg team.
Yeah they did ban 27k accounts recently, 16k and then 11k. The problem is, a good number of those are RMT bots, and all they do is just buy more accounts and start botting again.
Prices on items generally rise when bots are banned, but as they level, prices drop again. Month by month, the ban waves come and go, like a sinusoidal wave, and the price fluctuations follow.
E.G aether gems, platinum coins, +15 crit stones.