I don't disagree with you. But you already know that from our talks in the Bro server.
We had a lot more crap in those days, but we also had a heck of a lot more "quality posts" as well, many more than now.
I never really understood the point in banning them. Except making it harder for others to do what many whales and orcas had already done.
I have no idea what your username is on BRO cause someone changes them every few weeks.
There were alot of reasons to ban them. They promoted it as a way to cull STEEM of shitposts and stop people from buying influence but it was to protect the reward pool. Whales back then lost the most from voting bots because the reward pool was being diluted.