I agree completely with you. I saw so many minnows come and go over the last year and a half because they put in the effort and got little to no recognition or reward. With communities like @minnowsupport and @qurator minnows can finally get a little recognition for their work. Bid-bots just help incentivize minnows to put in the effort.

As for bid-bots raping the reward pool, sure it happens some, but there are so many people trying to game the system now in so many ways that the amount of reward raping going on by most bid-bots is pretty small compared to the benefits they offer to the quality posters.