Yes since the new EIP came in and reward splits are now 50/50 people are naturally curating more and the need for bid bots has been reduced!

If you want to buy upvotes you should send your reward to Hive account@null and remove the steem from circulation or users will flag you for trying to profit from the inflation like I have

Bid bots are used for promotion now and getting more views so we don’t see the point in earning a profit on getting more views and interactions ir should be a paid for service as with other social media sites