From what I've gathered from @ungratefulchump because the blockchain is decentralized there isn't much that can be done about a bot accessing Steemit on the chain. Even though we see the bot, we know it exists, we can't just remove it so easily from the website part of Steemit, because it's accessing it from the blockchain and verified by a miner, it's basically here forever.
Unless I missunderstood.
No you understood very well. That is why I'm hoping just like Steemit was able to leverage "updates" on the blockchain, Steemit is able to leverage weakening the power of these bots.