I love the way you think!!!! I have adopted a very similar attitude re. content curation. Yes I have people on auto vote because I am not always around, but like you say... these are trusted content creators and I - like I am doing now haha... go back to my outgoing votes for the day, to have my say on their posts... if I have anything to say, which in this case - I do :)
I generally set my steem auto vote limit at 95% mana so that ticks away (at close to best) if I am not around but allows plenty of room for me to sit down and go on a manual curation binge which is what I love to to Mon-Fri :) - and that "mixing up" generally stirs the automated votes - because I manually break the cycle and not everybody posts at precisely the same time every day.
Definitely a fan of "after the fact". :)