I agree with almost everything you said man. Still remember when Steem was sitting at 4$+ and people were making ridiculous amounts of money from posts and the voters didn't even possess 1/2 of the SP they do now...
I mean...thousands of dollars per post...I was a newcomer then and it seemed unreal, and nobody was giving a shit. Kinda funny considering that we now -mostly due to the bear market- downvote posts from 20$ to 10 or from 10 to 5$...
Don't get me wrong some of them fully deserve it. But it feels like there is an obsession regarding downvotes these days...