Not really. I think it would be fun to compete with bots, either AI ones or task automating ones. As long as the players know if they are playing against bots or not, it's fine, I believe.

One game is playing the game. The other game is building and tweaking the bot. Very different games, and both of them a lot of fun. Besides, playing with bots helps you to build your computer skills, which means a lot in this programmers' world we live in.