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Cathook (the main botting tool) has been in existence since at least Oct 2016, which is a year older than the code in the source leak.

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Yea, that existed, but it got even worse after the code was released. There are many examples of issues that most likely resulted from the leak.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/rbpyh0/this_happened_w...

Imagine if you could simply deploy an army of fuzzers on a piece of code, vs what could be derived from client side probing. Yes, having access to the source is a problem.

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