I found the same thing about palnet. I sold all of my initial PAL (for 4X lower than it is now). However, I do enjoy starting from the beginning. It's just a shame I won't be earning anything from curating for several months. It seems stable and practical now, but I do wonder what will happen when there are 100 million of them in circulation and several whales popup.

I've already read several posts from people who think the new changes are just going to make bid bot strategies even more powerful. It seems the free downvotes are a possible defense. However, some of these bid bots have 5 million Steem Power behind them which is a large deterrent for downvoting people simply because they use the service.
I do see the category for "bidbot abuse" perhaps getting more strict and powerful, but people who put in sincere effort will be allowed to use them for the time being. Perhaps, it will make bidbots like ocdb become the norm which would be great. A few of them I've come across have zero standards and basically, ignore all criticism. Maybe downvotes will make them behave (they are going to be more reliant on curation now), or atleast the delegators swich out.
I read one post that said this EIP was strictly for whales, developers, and witnesses.