First, botting is against the rules and botters should be banned.
I think adding p8 online is a good idea and do not use bots, so you are wrong.
As I will explain, online p8 hurts botters.
In fact, commercial botters probably hate online p8 and would argue against it. If players could legitimately get gear at a higher rate, then their is more supply for legitimate trading, and items would have less $ value. Essentially, online p8 hurts botters.
Even if we ignore that…
Lets just consider competition for sales between commercial botters. If demand exists, the idea that p8 would lead to 8x more items means that item value would crash and profit margin disappear due to competition and oversaturation of supply over demand.