I am not super technically inclined to how these things affect the blockchain at a larger level, but I am against autovoters. I use them because I'm small fry and the only other way to get a better ROI is to lease out my hive on dLease and not use Hive since I have no VP. As Acid said, he gets 4x more rewards going auto so I would be hitting myself in the knee with a hammer if I didn't use it. It would be a severe disadvantage.
As I said in reply to Acid, Markymark has me on a $0.67 cent auto-vote which now means NO OTHER CURATOR will pick me up. I get stuck with author rewards below $5 and it won't matter what I post. That's why I've gone all photos with minimal substance. Not worth my time to put anything more than a few basic facts into my posts. Spend an hour walking around taking photos, an hour to research and write, and in the end my time was worth $2 an hour.
I know what you mean, but of course there are also other ways to view things: for me for example a blockchain is a place to store my precious thoughts and ideas. I would never be satisfied with creating low effort posts which I didn't like myself ...
Furthermore, if more users focused on creating good content instead of making maximal profit, HIVE would look much better and interesting when viewed from outside of our microcosm ...