I really agree with you on everything you mentioned here. Whales are definitely manipulating with SBD price. All I get as rewards I power up. Every SBD I earn I power up. I recently noticed many people are powering down aspecialy whales, also sooo many people are delegating to voting bots. For whatever reason they see it as easier way to earn rewards. This leads to shrinking curation rewards for real steemiens. This leads to less upvotes from real people since so many of them prefer to delegate. Voting bots are getting most of curation rewards and on top of it they get paid for their upvotes. I’m surprised how so many people are using them since they are not that profitable at all. I would even say in most cases people loose on their investments. If people really want to help this comunity, why don’t they delegate to real people instead of voting bots. I guess they don’t care much, they care for profits. Anyway, I don’t believe it will last for long this voting bots system. Something will eventually have to give up.