I did read the post but did not go thru all of the comments. To be honest I used the service to get some extra SP. It was an impulse decision that I regret. Afterwords a did the math and realized that to get back my "investment" I am going to need to auto-vote seven times per day at full power which is not what I wanted the extra SP for.
Are we in a myopic state where we cannot even see how to improve?
That is a tough question...the main reason being that not everyone will agree on what needs to improve and how to change things. Some will not see a problem at all.