As a newbie in this wonderful platform,  I have taken my time to study steemit,  how it operates and most of the techniques required for someone to grow in this platform. 
I have also read several guide articles by different authors in this platform but I haven't heard anyone mention about this voting bot until today by you. 
From my experience so far in steemit,  the whales are the one really enjoying based on their reputation and followers.
As newbies, you have to begin with comments and good comments at that in order to draw their attention. Even if as a newbie and one make good post, without the help of these well established people on the platform resteeeming post, the post might not really gain enough audience that will upvoted or comment.  
This is really a disadvantage,  as it might discourage the person, the boils down to the fact that patience is needed. 
I have seen a whale who just posted a picture  and wrote  unreasonable thing on it,  to my surprise in less than thirty minutes he had already made about 50dollars.
Quality content draws the attention of people to read a post but if this voting bot is used by people who don't have the creativity, then steemitbis likely to loose it's integrity as the platform that rewards creativity,  innovation and intuition. 
Steemit encourages unique ideas and frowns at plagiarism or indolency.
I really loved steemit when I joined it because if how the system operates, and I have been enjoying it so far.  
I am totally not In Support of the voting bot as it will no longer encourage creativity rather like you said above, give the lazy ones the leverage to post articles that are not meaningful.
When you have in mind that your article will only be rewarded based on the quality,  one will always tried hard to make it unique but if otherwise, they will just capitalize on their voting bot for success. 
In a nutshell,  I am not in support of the voting bot except it's use in the promotion of quality content.