i assume you are right, it depends on the steemit or other social network developers and their communities, if they accept the bots, or want a free bot network, im sure defence systems could be developed to identify and ban bots

ofc a monetary system causes ppl to become greedy, hence the application of bots is so popular, it is difficult to answer, i guess you can only tell once you have a social platform (tokenized) up and running that is trying to block bots 100% and see what is the difference in user experience (i know sapien.network will attempt it) in the end, the user decides and not a wishful idealogy haha