what you say is absolutely spot on.. VERY few people have enough time to curate.. so we NEED bid bots..

what IF bit bots were all whitelisted and niche.. and delegators sent some SP out to the ones they respect. at.. got back 80% or whatever and EVERYONE is happy! WHen you build in ROI to the bots (like mine which is 11% firm), people will happily bid on them to get upvotes.. and they can STILL get random upvotes as we see now..

you see the numbers surely.. even 1000 whales cannot ever keep up curating 100,000 people.. so we must have delegation, and i believe bit bots to address this issue.. This then is a win-win-win rather than doing things like elevating the curation rewards which i agree with @crescendoofpeace is a terrible idea! It makes way more sense to let curators make way more from taking rewards from bids..