Why should you enable bots first
You can't "disable" bots. Having no API does not prevent bots, and an API is helpful for many other things.
And then there's the question of how exactly bots are harmful - after all, they're just doing what humans told them to.
And I totally agree with that.
I'm very very much against this mad crusade agains bots, it's just misinformed people who randomly attack something they don't understand.