Manipulating AI is fun. The resource selling to fund RAs gets pretty repetitive though. And it is a game that the AI doesn't really play at all. That's when it feels like abuse, whatever you call it. (Whether it's abuse or not, it is certainly boring and repetitive.)
That doesn't sound fun to me at all; they do need to fix this so that the exploits don't function as well.
I can't imagine the point of turning the game on if you are going to do this!