This is a very well written valuable post and it totally relates to my own concerns and vision. I've started paying more attention to ROI and the overall bot efficiency since that one time you pointed out to my mistake at the bottracker bidding . Believe it or not, I somehow managed to come to the same conclusion as you are expressing in your article. I registered with smartsteem already and got one star so far. Which, I think, is a direct consequence of the fact that I simply don't have enough time to dedicate to creating my posts and making them more substantial. I know people who turned Steemit into their full time job. It's not my case. Yet))) On the other hand, I 'm very pleased with the fact that somebody does such evaluation of content and I can trust them with delegating my upvotes, choose the desired level and so on, if I decide to take this rout.
Anyway, I'm glad I ran into you that first time. Or you ran into me)))