I go through and trim the users I follow every so often. I find that a lot of them post similar content, and of those, one or two post much better content of that type, while you're not missing out on the personality of the lesser quality content producers because they don't really show much of themselves except "Upvote me!"
And then there are just the people I've become disenchanted with over time. That they basically post the same exact thing, over and over and over again with almost no evolution in sight.
Finding your Steemit voice doesn't mean digging yourself a hole and staying in it. But a lot of people have been doing that lately.
Sorry for rambling. ^^;;
You make some very good points! Yeah, I think I've just been slacking on cleaning up my followers. Though to be fair, I did clean up quite a few last week.
I already need to clean mine out again, lol. And I did it over the weekend.