"Are you honestly questioning me stating this is a platform where users are free to do as they wish with their stake?"

Don't twist words/context and teh facts using logical fallacies.
It may work with some kids in the sandpit but now with me :-)

"Nah man, vote your own shit, it's your right.. Just don't spam single letter comments or whatever and it's not malicious imo."

Comment farming has nothing to do with what you write. It is irrelevant.
You confuse it with comment spam.
Sometimes comment spam is accompanied by comment farming
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Both comment farming and comment spamming have been in the scope of SC/HW work since 2016.
Just because someone writes more complex comment to avoid comment spamming, does not give someone a right to farm on their own votes.

This activity was not welcome on Steemit and is not welcome on Hive.
You need to finally get informed. You seemed to be quite detached from the reality of Steemit and seem to be a bit detached from the reality of Hive too.