Love the problem, not the solution.

People holding on to the idea of bidbots are not trying to solve any problems that Steem has or move things forward, only clinging to "solutions" that brought as least as many new problems with them as they solved... (The fact that things sucked more before bidbots is not an argument for bidbots). Bidbots as we have known them over the last 2 years will habe to adopt or die.

And no, there are 0 reasons to think that the millions of SP delegated to them would be dumped if that happened. And yes, it would be better for Steem long term of the few "investors" who don't see any reasons to be there other than the "passive income" they get from delegating to bidbots (it is not btw) were to dump and be gone. Else they will by definition need to dump more STEEM than they brought in for their "ROI" to be positive, so what's the point? A Steem where bidbots as we know them is a "major industry" is effectively just a ponzi where entrants depend on more people coming in after them to run a system that has proved to produce no value...

I am curious if you read the comments to your previous article?

In short: Yes, there is room for paid promotion on Steem. And yes, we need ways for people who want to get seen to break through the ceiling of the same circle-jerks on trending. So let's focus on building the most value-adding, sustainable solutions to those problems, rather than holding on to bad "solutions" that contributed to sending STEEM from #20 to #80 in marketcap in the first place.