You have some good points, we will have to see where the price goes when deposits / withdraws resume. We had a bit of a rally going on Binance, but now I see people dumping and buying back lower and lower increasing the amount of Steem accumlated with each cycle.

I helped drive the price up, selling off significant other holdings, now I'm HODLing as the price has dropped back below when the rally started.

But, like you said. If the bots and such dump when the deposits resume, that will be a good thing eventually.