The requirement for sourcing pics is to keep curators from thinking they are your original photos, not many curators take the time to search in tineye or other search engines and it was determined that sourcing is easier than downvoting curators that don't check.
Very few people are interested in policing abuse, fewer still that will downvote it.
Without these people the bots would sweep the web for content and drain the pool.
Only by policing abuse can we have this platform at all.

You are free to leave, but just know that if you do leave then you allow those that 'have done you wrong' to prevail.
If you cared enough about the hive, you would stay and join in the push back on the tyranny.

Either way, the blockchain will continue doing what it does.
I think you harm not just you, but all of us, by leaving.
More voices means better crowd wisdom, imo.