Your comment got me more interested in this project that the post itself!
That is certainly one of the main problems of steemit but I think more manual curation efforts and more SP behind those efforts would compensate for it. If all the SP that went into bidbots and went into curation projects, quality content wouldn't need to even bother thinking about using bidbots. Apps are great for the ecosystem but I feel they've also been prioritized over curation of great posts by minnows and dolphins.