Bidbots, were never a positive force for the blockchain, or an honest way for the platform to operate, regardless of the price of STEEM being low or not. That's irrelevant to the behavior being good or bad for the platform.

All that you see now was visible before: people who work to earn their way get bypassed by those who buy their way to the top; the community gets bypassed from an honest evaluation of the content by those who buy their way to the top.

Live and let live is only valid when there is no misbehavior occurring. When there are problems, you don't just let them live on and ignore them. Bidbots are a misbehavior for a successful social media evaluation platform. It perverts and destroys the purpose and potential success.

Those who use them are cheating the their way by not playing by the rules of earning their way there. If we want to create something better than society, we have to be better, not just cheat our way when we can just because we can, with "live and let live" bs.

Judgment is core to life and living. Without judgment, there is no determination of anything, anywhere. Rape and murder are just fine in that case. Whether something is creating overall positives or negatives in a system if meaningless, and anything is allowed to go on. This isn't how reality works.

Get judging reality around and see what is better to do and what is worse to do, and then reality can be better to live in. Steem can be better, if we want to make it better. Steem can succeed, if we want to make it succeed. Or we can just avoid judging bad things and just let greed and anyone do what they want and create a cesspool that no one wants to touch, and rightfully so.