To put it another way, if you have a dolphin with 5000 SP giving you a 100% vote, you would need 64 of them to get up to 16 Steem. There are only 2500 or so accounts that big but with 10X full votes a day. In any case, I'm sure 90% of them have no interest in engaging with me.

The dolphins and orcas will always do well, I see the steemit in crowd doing well, I see the art/music/creative writing communities surviving and thriving like usual. And like you said, people who find a niche or move.

I think palnet is worth trying out. I'm tagging it and it seems much more fair. I can bid a post up to like 150 Steem (that's only like a 15 Steem profit for me) and it is worth 4 pal where something I bid up to 50 Steem is worth 7 pal, so the metrics are much more rational. They base it more on engagement and obviously know the bots to rule out.

My guess is I will figure out how to game it without doing stuff that definitely gets flagged. I like experimenting and taking risks. I'll share my strategy. Actually, I look forward to it.