Nothing wrong with questioning anything. It's wrong not to be able to question some stuff.

The second the number of votes is used to determined the ranking of witnesses there will be people working to create script to automate the account creation and witness voting by those account. It would probably take less than 24 to create those script and that's why such a thing, even if it wouldn't lead to being automated, hopefully won't happen cause it would have to be roll back. There's a lot of thinking that has gone into the creation of Steem and a lot of these basics stuff are answered in the whitepaper.