That is a call that you will have to make my friend, and reap the rewards of or suffer the consequences of. There are a ton of studies on them if you search and they are not actually profitable as it is being the general consensus. Also they are not a necessity.. I have never used a single bot and do just fine. In fact if you check my million dollar challenge that is one of my rules.. https://steemit.com/steemit/@pawsdog/steemit-quest-for-one-million-time-required-to-build-a-usd1-000-000-00-steemit-account-day-33-results