As someone who is very active on Steemit, I fully agree with this post.
Even though I haven't usually stressed all that much about my voting power and curation rewards since my SP is pretty low, I have instead put a lot of time in to welcome new users with votes and comments as much as I could. This new change seems to counter my activity and tell me to leave Steemit cause my continuous tries to be welcoming and helpful to legit new users to the platform will be limited to 5 users per day, sort of.

People have not been so stressed in the last month or two about curation rewards

True and this was with vacation for 2 weeks for me which got my voting power above 50% for the first time in months.

As far as curation and voting bots, they are being used for very good purposes also. Rather than turning our tails and running away from them, why don't we use them for the greater good?

If this change is really just to get rid of bots, I think over time its something that will fix itself and shouldn't be altered this way. Like people used to say, in decentralization there is both those that want to use it for the greater good, and those who just want to see the world burn. But over time, like the use of bitcoin, the greater use of it will outweigh the evil use.