I agree wholeheartedly! Bots have already taken control of the "popularity" and rewards process. It is pure nonsense to make a massive reward to a posting regarding a price move on a crypto when that "news" has a useful life of about a minute, while at the same time, a posting that took the creator days or weeks to create is ignored because the bot is pointing to "hot, breaking", and mostly useless, post the bot was written to detect.
The flashing strobe lights are getting the attention and the real, lasting quality in Steemit is being relegated to the trash bin.
Eliminate ALL of the bots so real quality has a chance to make Steemit actually rewarding!
Extremism is never the right thing to do. You can't eliminate all bots, you can simply make them non-profitable. Maybe this will happen with communities - who knows. But as of right now - steem is a decentralized system where everyone has the freedom to do what he wants and if he/she wants to use 100$ to get on the trending page - then this is her own right.
Even if there wouldn't be any bots anymore - vote-selling would still not be solved. But you are right - we have to change steem for the better!