As fairly new in the community I agree with your points. I am here for a lot of reasons, one of them is the search for quality. Somehow it seems that the upvote bits and I disagree about what is quality content! It has happened too many times already that I have seen something that looks interesting and have several comments - and after checking out the post you find that all comments are from bots. It is the human interaction that should be put first in my opinion!
Bots ruin everything it seems, or rather the ones that are used for someone's selfish gain. I thought steemcleaners would help curb some of the bot problems and promote quality!~
Besides isn't steemit's economy supposed to be centered around a free market of ideas and discussion?