I'm not sure what the affect of bidding bots would be on Hive. I enjoyed using them on Steem but remember it being very frowned upon by the "holier than I" bunch.
I definitley don't think the content is better here than it was on Steem and I miss loads of people I enjoyed commenting back and forth with.
The saddest bit of your post was ""New Steem" movement, led by a self-proclaimed squad of STEEM police". Seems to me they are still around on Hive just in another guise. Still bullying posters for their own grandification.
I wanted to add the post that on HIVE, "NEW STEEM" have rebranded and get DFH but dont want to be inviting downvotes, lol.
Yeah. it's pretty sad that we have to watch what we say lest we get downvoted. Not exactly my idea of decentralisation of free speech. 🤷♀