You're saying the absolute truth. It's a rip off that keeps making the bot owners rich with little effort.
If you wanna help an author, sending liquid Steem or sbd is much better than sending it to bidbot - that's in the case where your VP isn't sufficient enough to reach out or encourage the author.
Is not the fault of some people.
The truth is the competition here presently is too much, imagine you have good contents and nobody to hear you.
It all depends on how you use the bid bots.
We must understand that users must definitely abuse the system but we cannot over rule the advantages of it also
Abuse is abuse is abuse is abuse. The only advantage abuse has is in overcoming it, yet you seem to imply differently.
You either condone or you condemn abuse.
We can't condemn the product (bid bots) because it has more advantages than disadvantages. We can only condemn the abusers.
Just my thought
The product is abuse itself, do you understand that? Therefore we can definitely condemn and not only the product, but the sellers, and the buyers, with the buyers, always holding more responsibility than the sellers.