Curation is better than vote selling.

Manual curation is (arguably) better than auto vote sniping, at least for the health of the platform.

High concentration of stake based voting in the hands of a few curators, even if voting honestly, could result in a skewed representation of content discovery and rewards that doesn't align perfectly well with what would have happened had everyone's vote weighted equally. This is the problem of bad taste.

Vote selling/circle jerking/self voting are instances of content indifferent voting behavior

Content indifferent voting is far worse than the problem of bad taste!

I wish the number one problem we need to help solve is the problem of bad taste. But that's a luxury problem not even close to content indifferent voting in terms of the harm it causes.

So going curation for a bid bot is a huge step in the right direction. That's basically as big a win as you can realistically get around here.