because there a blind downvote spree on bid bot users regardless of quality and content

I don't buy it. There are have been posts at the very top of trending with bid bot votes with minimal downvotes. It isn't blind at all, it is in response to perceived value mismatch.

And when it comes down to it why would you pay for votes for high value content when you can get votes for free? Okay, maybe a small amount of votes to get the post to the point where someone sees it. But once the magnitude goes beyond that i.e. all those posts maxing out a whole bunch of bought bot votes? Those are all low value.

The whole model is nonsense. People are tying to rationalize an exploit into a feature.