I myself have never powered down and have so far only converted sbd to more steem power. I want to accumulate sp. I have also never used an autovoter. I like to cruise my feed, read the post and vote. It's just more fun that way. I do sell some voting power to smart steem so I can earn a little bit. I invested as much as I could in Steem and want to keep moving in a positive direction. It's very difficult to earn from posts when nobody seems to read them lol.
I agree, @cflclosers!
I guess the best model will be some 30% 30% 30% buckets to spread yourself out a little bit. Since clearly automate some stuff has it's benefis. Since the output of amazing content I would say is still too little so it makes sense to sell some upvotes. But the ideal would be so much good content that we always can do manual curation if we want.