Great post. I feel for you guys - modding Minnowbooster is enough work for me lol
For anyone's who's still well in Minnow status, but would like to contribute to MSP: you can use MinnowBooster to lease some SP for the MSP bots. You will not get autovote from this, but you will be contributing to the success of MSP.
I contributed the 100 SP I could to msp-creativebot and used MinnowBooster to top up my contribution with another 100 for 4 weeks which I will be adding to and renewing.
Full Disclosure: As stated above, I am a MinnowBooster Mod and have 160SP invested in the project. I receive revenue share from upvotes and delegation fees.