Yes, ultimately, human curators if they're given the chance will save the platform. I am guilty of using bots, and I tried joining a community that relied on people upvoting my posts and others, thinking that everyone else is doing it, but it felt ultimately pointless. I wanted human readers, not bots, or people who will only upvote my content if I upvote theirs.

A platform can't survive if everyone is just writing and not reading each other's posts.

By the way, what do you think of a discord channel dedicated to anime writing? I'm thinking of starting one, because I just hate shifting through tons and tons of meaningless posts in the anime tag.