I read your post, very candid take on things.
My own opinion is that outgoing votes (i.e. for others) are going down as self votes increase. I need to make sure the data supports this but it seems to be what's happening.
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That could very well be possible. Thinking about this, I auto upvote my post when publishing. This automatically happens at 100%, while I have adjusted my votes on other people's posts, to make sure I can upvote as many as I did before.