Greetings dear friend. Hopefully, you will be doing well.

You have tried your best to explore the topic in the best possible way and I congratulate you that some of your points are very solid. The voting boards are actually the automatic systems or softwares that replace the minds of men while curation.

The use of voting bots is disturbing the reward pool of the blockchain hence most of the rewards are given to those users who have huge Steem Power and have delegated their SP to different bots to generate artificial votes.

Good luck 🤞