In earlier updates, Basic Workerbots were superior to Crude Workerbots in every aspect. I'm simply curious as to why Crude Workerbots now have larger hand and backpack inventories (v11.1). Why are we now given a reason to keep using Crude bots? Or is it to balance the game once we gain the Basic bots (and not let us just exponentially boost efficiency)?

We've not really finalised the bot balance yet, we're just experimenting with some changes. In essence the Crude bots are slow and strong while the Basic bots are fast but weak. Steam bots are fast and strong.