If I could take away rep instead of giving it, I would for this reply. Really, answers like yours are akin to saying "Oh, your leg's broken? You should amputate it". Yeah, the leg won't be broken any more but that's hardly a useful response; you want to set it and heal it (fix it), not just remove it.
Unchecking the option is a temporary solution to persistent problem. Problems like these need to be brought to Mastahg's attention so they can be fixed, and while I have no expectation that it will be done quickly (reading Mastahg's posts above), without bringing the problem into the light so he (she? I've no idea, don't like to make assumptions) can be aware of the problem, it would never be fixed at all.
If we were looking for a stop-gap solution to it, we would be asking for that instead of reporting a legitimate bug.
I actually didn't mean for that to sound as stand-offish as it should, but I still stand by the gist of it.
It is a problem, but overall affects very little. Escort quests give the same amount of Exp and Seals as any FATE of the same level, and only one of them per map compared to the relative abundance of BOSS and BATTLE FATEs. It would also be hard to make Escort quests look like a natural human being due to the fact that it moves and how the bot currently operates, and the little gains in fixing it would be better off set to newer BotBases and such.
Another problem is that they mention it being a bug, when it in fact working normally. Some parts of the bot looks like a bot no matter how you slice it, Gathering without a mesh takes the same path over and over, ReturntoAetheryte returns to the Aetheryte and takes no jumping paths whatsoever, Escort FATE Botting just falls under the same category, and if you don't want to look like a bot, don't use it. Hell, even normal FATE botting looks like a bot because you stand in one spot and try to kill things without moving or dodging AoEs, it's just readily apparent in Escorts because everyone else is moving while you're stutter stepping. But they're still not bugs, because they are working as intended.
The only thing that it might really affect in the long run is if you need an Escort FATE for your Relic books and the said Escort FATE is particularly rare, and even that seems really far-fetched.
Plus I take offensive to your erroneous analogy, why compare turning it off to amputation. Heads up, dude: If your leg is broken, DON'T USE IT. It isn't even broken, it's working properly; just not in the way you want it to. Which makes the analogy even sadder.