Yes there are some programs that are very basic (made by beginners) but there are also a lot of program made by SRL members (those who have proven that they got the skills to make a good script. I won't deny the ability of rid, as the script that they've made is very awsome, but there are many scripters in SRL that could came up with same things and if not, better.
The big difference between SRL and RID, is that SRL encourage learning botter not only to bot, but learn how bot works as well. Because of this learning focused environment, a lot of people in SRL that have very good scripting skills just end up making private scripts for themselves rather than giving it out to to the community, thus can sometimes make the community seems lack of scripts. But those who has the skill and willing to post their scripts, it usually ends up being pretty good and very safe (am talking about 20-40 99s without a ban from a single scripts).
The reliability of the bot is dependent on the script, the longgest running script was over a month, because it was color and the fact that we can make our bot refresh rs home page after update and the script will WORK after the update because its color (unless there is a graphical change).
I'll admit that we don't have MTA or Pest controllers at the moment, but SRL community does have the ability to make one and the fact that we had a couple very good versions of those proves that we can do it as well.
Remember, the community is not driven by money (which can motivate some one to keep on updating their script), the goals is for people to learn how to make very good scripts and after a while, they could make any bot for themselves as they like (can't really say that about the other botting community). Personally, I've only got banned once in the begginer days, but since then, I've had A 138, 125, 122, 118 and 112 with all 0 black marks and there is alot of other very high level and rich SRL people as well.
And just an reminder for yall, remember the time where there were 50 lvl 3s wcing yew and botting green drags in 2008-2009? Thoses were COLOR bots, not reflection.....So when jagx nuked reflection bots, they just forced every one to go back to the dominate era of color bots...