Well I guess anyone who is new to steemit feels the same somehow the way you described. I agree in a healthy environment there shouldnt be bots around doing humanly things. On the other hand I accept bot system on steemit as some kind of a help for beginners. Because you are not known by other people when you first started, you need to take attention of others. And for some natural reasons people tent to get attracted by the 'popular' things. So bots help you by sending huge amounth of upvoting to your posts to be noticed by others (who are humans). Of course If you are an old steemian and still use bots that means your content is not so quality featured. But If you trust your content creation ability using bots help you at the beginning of your journey to reach the people you can interact with. So briefly no need to be negative about this bot thing. Lastly I admit that maybe there should be some other ways to reach steemians rather than with bots. There are such ways but not implemented in steemit. Instead of making circle of critics we can go faster by talking about what kind of new content spreading ways we can offer for steemit is much better. Lets not forget social media didnt start with steemit so there is a huge experience we can observe and choose the most suitable solutions for steemit.