I've got to agree with OP. We have to assume that those cheaters gained an advantage of much more than the (average) 8,000 plat which have been removed from the game. Those 8,000 plat only correspond to 1 or 2 rare items, and I don't want to know how many of the cheaters' items have been collected with the help of ShowEQ. After their suspension they will still wear many "cheated" items.
I understand that the devs don't want to drive away all those 365 players, because the server needs a healthy population. That is why a permanent ban or character deletion would have been too much. Nevertheless, they should not be allowed to keep (all of their) items.
You should have stripped them of all their items and equipped them with a full set of cloth armor and a rusty short sword / dagger. This would give them a "clean", new start.
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