Great sum up @sourosa.
The way I see it autovotes are both awesome but at the same time a pain in the ass.
From my point of view very few things have changed regarding the author rewards since we forked out of Steem. I mean there was never a reset on Hive.vote and that lead to the same people receiving votes from "lazy whales" as they used to in Steem but this time with double the amount of $$ cause Hive is more than double in value than Steem was before we fork.
We need more manual curation or else Hive will become like Steem. It already feels like Steem now that the Hive hype is gone if you ask me.
I see a lot of community leaders who are trying hard to build something unique here not receiving enough support from whales etc. Not everone has the cash to buy 100k Hive to support their community members and that leads to community members abandoning the "not-so-rewarding" communities and search for communities in which whales curate or for communities in which whales follow their curation trail.
I believe that we should start trusting community leaders more and start following varius community curation trails. Then it is up to the community leaders to spread that auto-voting stake to everyone. The vote and HIVE distribution will become way better than just users auto-voting other users and friends. If you feel like auto-voting a user or a friend you can do it manualy.
I know that this is kinda off-topic cause this whole discussion is about auto-voting and not about communities but the way I see it communities are the future of Hive so we better start trusting people who are working hard and not just auto-vote our friends etc.