You just take it as it is or you quit.
I don't think this is the case at all. There is tremendous opportunity to create new sites and services built on the steem blockchain other than steemit.com. The new features that SteemIt, Inc is working on will also do a lot to encourage that.
So hopefully there will be lots of new sites that pop up using the steem blockchain in the not-too-distant future which will try to address a lot of the issues many users see on steemit.com right now.
Regarding @upme, there is really not much information in that post but @upme is a very reputable bot that has been running without issue for a long time so I give them the benefit of the doubt in this situation.
Thanks for all your answers!
And thanks for contacting the owner of the bot. In the end it seems to be a bug all big bots suffer from....