I agree but that doesn't mean it can't be changed. What I would like to see is a community powered account with a couple million SP delegated dealing with these kind of abuse.
Kind of like what @steemcleaners is doing but only looking at serious vote abuse cases like this one.
Maybe put up a weekly wall of shame post to trending listing all of the accounts on the caught 10xing themselves, burning them to ashes with a couple million SP and inviting the rest of the community to throw in their small flags just to show that we are against such behavior.
Been thinking about it for a while now, should write up my thoughts and see what the community thinks about it.
Then again, vote exchange is the same thing no? 10 alt account, 1 alt account, vote exchange based on SP with 9 other accounts. Maybe for bigger accounts it's difficult to find equal SP holders, so they are creating 10 alts...Basically everyone is kinda doing either these three. If there need a wall of shame, don't think there're enough places tho.
But I appreciate your efforts.
It would be a difficult task but I think it's one worth pursuing for the long term sustainability of this platform. Think about it. If most just milk the system, who is going to reward the newcomers?