I think that approach would be amazing to see how it'd unfold if we didn't have autovotes or autovote services, you some times get votes and some times you don't, depends if someone read it and was curating at the time.

Unfortunately since hive has feeless transactions there are autovotes and you're basically penalized if you don't vote. Along with if you plan on going afk you're not sure if you can trust certain services to delegate to for curation rewards for long, so many choose to autovote instead.

This is what usually gets abused, some authors get used to the autovotes and start posting strategically so they can make the most out of those autovotes and over time the content quality fades, the effort drops, they don't care if they're getting read or reading and engaging with others, place autovotes themselves and expect that to continue on forever at the cost of the stakeholders here.