Sadly, what little power I have doesn't extend to reviving deleted characters. For such matters, I do always defer to what the GMs tell me.
On-topic, yes, the bot drops were nerfed. They'll be brought back up to something closer to what they used to be in an upcoming patch (the one that'll fix Alappa).
Edit: The bot droprate nerf was done to make the chances similar to city raids (S10 did and still has a statistically higher chance to produce bots); it wasn't entirely arbitrary.