I think the different modes are a good idea. Even if it is a bit expensive on the elixir. Many situations I am just farming dark elixir as I have lots of elixir but lazypressing bot doesn't do the trick. Like you say, giants that spread out are useless, plus it delays too long before deploying barbs and archers.
May look into doing a bot again and just using auto it instead of blue eye which I can't get a license for anyway. There is an open source prog out there called macro gamer which is made by autoit. May just try using that GUI and add ocr teaseract scanner on to it. That a bad idea taking someone else's prog and just trying to add functionality to it?