Someone please explain to this old man how this isn't the beginning of the end for the game, if someone can come into this game and use some kind of program to run multiple accounts, undeveloped in structure but competing now in events, winning events, and we shouldn't be concerned? 

The giveaway is that all the accounts are sitting at the same level. It's a dead giveaway that exactly the same actions have been performed in each accounts, every day. And by level 69 the only way that happens is by bot.

As someone who does run a number of accounts I can tell you that even if you create them on the same day, if you run them manually they very quickly end up at different levels. 

It's because as a human you end up doing different stuff on different accounts. One day you feel like doing certain things, the next day you can't be bothered and you certainly don't get to all of them every day. The first account you log in a day you normally end up doing more on as you get bored and start cutting corners the longer your online doing the grind.

So very quickly they diverge in levels, even if in your head you have a similar plan for them all.