because botters can't get them easily, simple as that.

All the botters staying on lod then converting cant get them at all, and for the ones on rotw (I assume there are at least some?) it is a completely different way to farm that needs to be implemented. IF warlock hadn't been so overpowered, the higher difficulty of heralds would also be a problem for bots

I think it is a safe bet that this will get reworked in new patch or DLC in the future, the whole Herald/Sunder is nearly unanimously despised. On another popular forum there is 2 posts on the topic of Heralds on the 1st page. One thread has 2 pages now and growing, the other 6 pages. It is almost 100% negative opinion on the content. Looking at other communities the reception is pretty close to universal, the system just sucks donkey ****.

If they do not patch it, the second safest bet will be A.) bot to work with ROTW will be developed & B.) a lot of people will be creating 2nd burner accounts to bot.

a few cry baby threads on cry baby forums like reddit and jsp =/= community consensus

by who? sub 80 IQ redditors? Online screeching is not indicative of anything other than online screeching. The average person played this game just fine prior to Sunders and will continue to do so.

Talk to JSP mods who get butthurt over links to other forums, so check out yourself over at diabl2.io, blizzard own forum even which is troll heaven. What I am saying is this, every single topic that gets posted has near universal negative response to this new content. I have even seen a few threads here on JSP that did not take too kindly to a system that required players to spend hours clearing such popular areas as Rocky Waste and Cold Plains.

People online are not representative of broader public opinion. Online spaces are like the town square where all the nutters go with their 'End is near!' signs. Not to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, the clown show that is modern game development hasn't come this realization yet.