I already read your complaint. Saying players would hover over every card is your own personal opinion, not a fact. As I have heard, playing on mobile/tablet doesn't even show a hover. Being slow to attack isn't a sure sign of botting either. Both of these issues could be fixed by taking 1 minute to edit UAI.
What you are saying about SmartBot, people said about HC vs HB. Yet in the end it was HC which was detected and not HB. HC was even programmed by a well known figure on OwnedCore who supposedly knew his shit. So not only is the SB injection routine written by who knows, but they even have server side DRM with all the issues that causes. HB could have better AI sure, but the guy behind UAI isn't being paid for it as far as I can tell. The hovering and attack delay issues you raised are easily fixed, and I would bet on HB being safer.
Then make the HB team develop their own AI? The two most important things on a bot are security and efficiency. We all know that AI isn't efficient because it's in pair with a FREE bot. It is slow and it doesn't play very well. In terms of security there are 2 parts.How human does it look and how undetectable it is. In terms of being undetectable I vow for HB of course, they aren't detect immune but they do a very good job with it with only few detections amongst all bots they've created. In terms of looking human, it totally fails, any player who sees how the bot behaves, can see if they are playing against HB user or not. It is regularly seen on streams because how the bot attacks, in terms of speed of targeting and all of that, it really looks robotish.
This BOT is actually pretty terrible. The skip a turn really TELLS anyone that we Bot. atleast if you know anything about this bot.
I was banned in the first ban wave when using HearthBuddy and Hearthcrawler. Got unbanned maybe a month or 2 ago. As far as bots being detected (through a ban wave, not player reports), the only bot I trust is Hearthbuddy. With that being said, I'm not currently botting because Hearthbuddy is terrible. SmartBot is definitely the best, but as someone in here said, who knows if it will become detectable. The Buddy team has fought/fighting Blizzard in legal battles because their software is undetectable. So until Hearthbuddy can do anything, I won't be botting.
i was using only HearthBuddy on my second account while my main was banned (3 month ban) and when second wave of bans pop-up my second account - where i use only hearthbuddy was permabanned. so i will not use hearthbuddy on my main anymore.