I think people are finding this out more and more. The rate you put in is less than what you get out. It means maybe just maybe steemit is working the way it was intended to. Too many people using bots leads to less and less rewards. Detouring people from use of bots and go the route of making better posts or contributing more curating in steemit.
If steemit is worried about these bots, they should have abolished it long ago. Also these bots are owned, created, run or supported by our witnesses. That means all these bot are still good and not putting impact on the reward pool.
If people wisen up, these bot could still be good for what it is created for which is a tool for us to use to advertise our article or post.
How would you abolish bots?
Are these bots bad or harmful to the steemit platform?
If these bots are harmful we can control it. Steamcleaners are doing a good job at moderating plagiarism. Same method could apply to these bots.
We might not completely remove these bad bots but it won't be used by many because they know that if they use it they might get flagged or something.