Others have definitely increased the vests they vote my posts. It makes sense.

Yes, even many autovoting accounts have adjusted themselves across their voting range. The dust vote is a silly rule but there are some technical implications to it as well as some social ones I think.

even if they didn't always make sense at the time of reading.

Sometimes still, they barely make sense to me at the time of writing but once I put all the little pieces together, it helps me better understand the ecosystem as a whole and if I can transfer what I have learned, it is worth the effort.