It's probably real tbh.. keep in mind they are just saying they wanna ban bug abusers, not botters. The glitches all became public, what like about 2 months ago, maybe less? They patched them by fixing the main exploit which was the LoW gate. Then as of last week they implemented a new log that logs everything you craft, and everything sent to and from skylab. My guess would be they're gonna run a script to see who crafted what, and then check your resources to see if you had the right amount to do so.
So I would not abuse any glitches anymore right now, at least not on any account you care about. For shits and giggles, do it on a scrub account you don't care for, and see the outcome. As for bots, they will never stop us, because it's not pixel botting.. it's mimicking real mouse clicks, which is why they can't prove anything, other than some of us like shoot aliens for 24 hours straight xD