This is certainly encouraging for the authors who are not on "the list". However, I am sure that as long as there is money involved the bot makers will find ways to get around whatever measures are put in place.
It will take more that your encouragement to make up for what is happening in terms of the voting system.
For example, it is a very simple task for bots to diversity subjects in order to make it appear that the subject contents are diversifying and to introduce "new" user bots which then leaves real authors and potential good content with no possible path to realize the promise of Steemit.
You are doing an excellent job of providing some measure of accurate information regarding why the platform works the way it does.
Unless Steemit starts allowing "good content" to participate in the financial rewards that are constantly visible, I see no real incentive for authors to put forth the energy and time required to produce excellent content.
I do see some reasonably good content getting some financial traction, however, it is a very small percentage.
This is not surprising since if one looks at the world outside Steemit you see that excellence and quality are not what generates the most financial rewards. So it is not reasonable to expect the Steemit platform to not be reflective of the world in general.
It is totally natural that as the number of users on the platform ramps there will be more financial rewards going to high quality content.
The difficult issue to resolve would be how would you provide enough incentive for individuals to generate exceptional quality content.
The good news for Steemit is that no other currently available functioning social media platform provides any direct financial incentive for high quality content.
If serious effort is put towards creating alternatives within the Steemit to attract and reward exceptionally good content, the platform would benefit greatly from its first mover advantage.
I cannot see that happening using the current voting algorithms because high quality content outside the platform requires special attention and infrastructures to maintain its support and existence.
Popularity driven systems will always put the greatest attention and rewards in the hands of content that meets the "lowest common denominator" in terms of quality.
We have "human" curators who mean well and are devoting time and great effort to address the content issue but they are no match for well programmed bots.
Your efforts needs to be matched by very clever programming that puts some real leverage in the hands to of human curators.
Just my humble opinions!!