Thank you for the clarification @Clumsyclef , I appreciate you taking the time to explain your position.
I do agree that Discord bot verification has specific criteria and that not every bot necessarily needs to be verified.
However, based on Discord’s current verification requirements, the main blockers appear to be formal and administrative in nature
(such as team ownership, Terms of Service, privacy policy, and verified emails / 2FA), rather than technical difficulty alone.
From a technical standpoint, creating and maintaining a functional Discord bot — even one with a fairly advanced feature set — is absolutely feasible without verification.
I’ve personally experienced this by developing a comparable bot within a short timeframe.
The only meaningful limitations I’ve encountered are related to restricted API access
(for example inspection or member list endpoints), not implementation complexity or development effort itself.
So while I fully understand that verification is currently not planned and may require changes you don’t wish to pursue,
I mainly wanted to clarify that this is less about feasibility and more about whether those formal requirements are something you want to commit to.
Thanks again for the explanation, and I appreciate the information regarding the secondary bot option.