"This is seen as spam here on Steemit..."

Bullshit. The comment is directly relevant to your post, and discusses it. That's not spam.

IMHO, paid promotion of posts without openly stating it is spam.

@transparencybot is working to prevent that spam, which is overwhelming the platform. If we recognize that people conferring with one another is the basis of society, then what place has paid advertising or promotion of such commentary? Essentially, such paid promotion is a form of lying about the validity of the PoV of the commentary, by elevating as if it were widely supported by actual people.

Which it isn't.

As the platform is already perceived by many as so impossible to so confer organically with actual people that buying botvotes is necessary to converse, the value of the society to the people conversing is being degraded to utter pointlessness.

You are basically converting a public forum for people into a cryptomining scheme.

@transparencybot is right on the money when it comes to the long term effects of bots voting.

You are just trying to protect your mining with whatever you can conjure up to divert attention from the harm you are doing to the platform, and the society it supports, so you can keep mining the rewards pool, taking rewards from content creators that it should be going to.