" Posters make more when they can vote for themselves and kickstart the curation of their own content."
That is the reason "I don't get" why we must manually vote for our post... It should auto-vote our post with our voting power when we post anything.
What if you don't want to use your voting power on your own posts though? The option is good to have.
Yep, sometimes you want to wait to vote for your own post until your voting power is back to maximum for example. It could simply be made into an account setting though, letting you enable or disable auto-voting for your own posts.
yep! frustrating to vote each post