I'm not trying to validate anything. I simply think bid-bots were born because of a flaw in the system. A flaw that needs to get fixed.
If you tell me I should never buy another vote then that's what I'll do. It's totally against the spirit of the entire platform and proof-of-brain.
Unfortunately, this is an issue of statistics. You can't expect everyone to engage in the honor system. There will always be bad actors. That's why development needs to be done to directly attack the bots.