Been following this and while I agree that hackers tend to play the dunce card, you are entirely wrong in thinking that's why there are so many people whom are saying they were falsely banned. I have a friend who was banned as well and it seems that the devs flagged a bunch of addons as false positives, in his case some from Curse Gaming. My friend cant install addons correctly let alone hack, so these bans are pretty much false positives related to questing addons.
I don't blame them for the ban waves though as botting does discourage players especially in the first months. They're obviously fighting a big battle with botters; the whole buying a subscription ingame proves this as this eliminates gold vendors for the most part.
edit: from the dev post:
"It's possible some weren’t hacking and were caught in the sweep by accident. We’ll work to resolve those cases if they happen. Based on the reports, this shouldn’t be a category – but errors can happen, and in the interest of transparency, if it happens we’ll investigate and use that to refine our searches further."
So what they did was make an algorithm and just ban people based on variables. Yeah, this is pretty sloppy/piss-poor when we all know they have the manpower to inspect bots in a live sense and verify case-by-case if they are hacking/botting. I used to do this myself on emulated MMO servers and it hardly takes more than 4-5 minutes for each person (and this was a 2004 MMO, I can't imagine now what tools they have).
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