I think DVs have a purpose and that they generally do it. Without them this place would be much worse. The problems may be in the centralisation of stake, but that is not the fault of the code. I keep saying that Hive is imperfect, but it's good.
I just downvoted some spammy comments, but that person will keep posting anyway. Maybe I should automate it.
i rarely downvote, but when I do, it's usually because someone is literally being harmful to the platform (as far as I can tell)
That's generally why I do it.