Many seem to think that auto- and whale-votes will always come their way no matter what they post.
Steem userbase is still tiny and most people have never heard of it , when the masses come rushing in there will be a shortage of Steem power, the price will increase a lot, many whales will sell and people that were on auto whale vote ignoring their audience will cry . That's the most likely scenario imo.
There will be a lot more popular authors making reward exponentially harder to get. I can't wait to have some of my favorite authors to join Steem.