It looks like there are many of us who are in agreement about this fact. I'm glad to see it's not just me :)

I posted about the upvote bot scheme .. 8 days ago according to my blog. I thought the title was clever "The Epic Failure of Steemit, and Why you Should Care", but apparently 66 views resulted in 22 upvotes, so only 33.33% of people cared.. not a very promising result. I even tried to promote the post, but still nothing stuck.

As long as enough of us continue to post about this atrocity, hopefully it will eventually get enough exposure for a conglomerate of whales to actually do something about it (other than build more bots).