Things will remain the same, have you seen who is the bid bots biggest delegator? @freedom. Now who controls the witnesses? @freedom. Do you think the owner of this account is going to screw up his or her major source of income? And who are you going to flag? @berniesanders?Probably not, because he strikes back.
If whales who are the only ones whose downvotes could change something, wanted to use flags they would have been used a long time ago by these really big accounts, but all of them are into about the same kinds of crap, and the rest of us? Even if we, small accounts do use these downvotes they will basically mean nothing, and we will all be open to retaliation. Try researching @freedom and then we can talk.