I didn't say it was abuse, please read: https://hive.blog/steem/@steemitblog/hf21-sps-and-eip-explained
also look at accounts like haejin who farmed the pool for years and no one used their downvotes cause they'd lost curation rewards. That's why the EIP came to life and if we can't normalize downvotes (like on reddit/youtube) and keep thinking that any autovotes we get are instantly our money even though it clearly says "pending" we're not going to get far. Thanks for the witness unvote.