I see SBI in much the same way as I see autovotes. People want to support their favourites and have a return on their investment. But where as autovotes creates a very two tiered system that it is hard to break through, SBI has the potential to bring up the lower accounts.
ON hive/ Steem like we see in the real world money gets money. Obviously the reward pool has big distribution problems and until quality becomes the judging criteria for post rewards I am happy to see these tools in place for the little guy.
I dislike automation in general on Hive or Steem and would like to see quality posts be king but once you are competing with bots I can't see that happening.