It is complicated. The bot wars on the steem chain resulted in various solutions, but curation trails are also great ways for users to support content creators, and work together. Just like delegating your HP to whales or bots, the benefit is there for those who use it, but it can be abused.

I would like to believe that we value freedom of expression,

and if we find a post we don't want to vote for, we don't.

If users are powering up and staking their rewards, then they are still vesting in the platform and increasing its value. There are various bot tools that are quite handy. Like !PIZZA for example.

I think it comes down to personal responsibility. I try not to vote for users who are powering down and cashing out rewards, but even so it's their loss. Those who have done this and sold off all their rewards are just forfeiting their vesting shares. They may regret it, but I will not judge others for taking profits, we all are hopefully translating Hive into real world value one way or another