Nice. Concrete evidence that post promotion through bid bots add 0 demand for STEEM since it is not used unless fully subsidized by the reward pool and users reimburced! Free markets win :).

What puzzles me the most is how few of the "sad" bid bot runners are instead looking to do something else. Like build a curation project focused on a topic they would really love to see grow on Steem. The differences in returns with EIP compared to bidbots is not that big. Helping grow a whole new userbase would still allow you to pay back delegators and do something to grow the userbase in order to make future promotion actually attractive.

I'm not going to get stuck anymore discussing whether or not "responsible" use of bidbots is "good or bad". The bottom line is that there are so many better ways to use SP to drive Steem forward and make it more attractive. So let's build that instead.