No bot in the world would be able to kill steemit :-)

As stated before, my opinion about bots is that I don't use them because I don't need them. But if others considered them contributive from their point of view, then I couldn't disagree with that.

I think it's a question of balance as you said in your article. We shouldn't forget that this is a SOCIAL network. There is nothing more valuable than personal interaction a bot can't take care of.

I by myself prefer to always manually handle my voting power since I want to have 100% control over my doings and my money.

Plus I enjoy the complete freedom to decide spontaneously on changing my curation strategy. If I see something that I like or that I want to support, I vote for it. If somebody leaves an amazing comment in my article, for instance, I'm able to upvote it with 100% if I feel I should do that. Bots don't permit this flexibility.

Every invention has their right to exist as long as they contribute to the overall goal - which in this case is growth and wealth.