It might not be your intention specifically (or it might be), but whales defending this new downvoting-bidbot-customers policy do so because it is profitable for them.
Non-whales were liquidating too much value out of this blockchain's economic value, which is not bad according to the offer/demand market, but sucks to old higher-profile inverstors who want to milk more easy money out of the system.
Truth is, this policy won't change anything except make good authors more prone to leaving steem altogether because of the growing number of competitors that might offer better pay.
Meanwhile, people like @clayboyn get $8 for posting an ad... Those upvotes were given by none other than ex-bidbots accounts and people who profited from the bidbot era the most like @themarkymark himself.
I think @clayboyn does a lot more for Steem than just his posts but it's of course something that at first glance is easy to judge and people like to do it especially when feeling attacked.
You don't seem to realize that using profitable bid bots takes rewards from everyone else as well, not just cause they could get curation instead but also the curve now on top of it all. Seems like this part is something the pro-bid bot buying users often like to forget.
He got $8 from upvotes to that post. If they want to pay him, then they shouldn't take away...
...Since those rewards are for GOOD CONTENT, am I right? Proof of my brain ass. Not to mention...
Obviously autovotes aren't always there based on content, you can support steemians for other things they do and if you disagree with that you can downvote it.
Also yeah seems like it has been really profitable for me lately to downvote getting stalkers downvoting my comments and most of my post rewards dropping by 50-80%.