Large bot-adoption would probably just be a race to the bottom for everyone on the platform. While at the same time stifling the potential for growth as new users are less likely to stay on the platform when the majority of early interactions they get are from bots.

Any effort to surface more of the human-to-human interactions that do happen in channels and chatrooms such as steem.chat or discord to new users (as a part of the steemit platform) and ensure that they can engage with people earlier, would help a lot I think.