The incetive can grow if the demand of Steem grows. This can grow with influx of money from outside from investors. The bots investment can attract investors. Steemit needs to make it attractive in some way for people to put money in.

The trending system is tricky, if one manages to come into trending a couple of times in a week will be added to the autovotes from whales as they target curation, the so called circle jerks.

There are some good content creators that use the bots to accelerate the process from months to weeks. I see nothing wrong with it especially for the ones that are good.

With the bottracker some bots will be killed, like bellyrub this days as the maximum earnings will drop to 75% of the vote value. This is good. We will see some direct vote selling from big whales, not directly from bots. Would this be ok? Bots are not bad or good, they are tools in here. The humans make the system and abuse it.

Some will not have the time to curate. I have to pledge guilty on this as I took some favourite accounts and vote them on time for perfect curation and only after I check what I have voted. Sometimes I remove the vote if I don't like the content.

Thank you for the reply. :)