I took a look at the bot stats. I don't think that's even a fraction of the existing bots, for one, secondly, each bot carries delegation from hundreds of accounts, so they still direct a disproportionate percentage of the rewards pool. Not to mention, many of the bots have autovote followers, to make it look like multiple votes. Then you have to factor in the votes that follow those bots to make curation. I think there are a lot of considerations here that you're missing. As to the shift, we started 40,000 new accounts this week. Each of them gets less than a penny in vote power, but of course that causes a shift, down. Unless those accounts can truly hope to be voted on fairly and gain rewards, it won't matter. Most of them will be gone in less than three months, leaving much of that SP in ghost accounts that sit unused. I wish I could agree with your assessment, not only that, but the whales earn 20% of the rewards through vote buying, and they don't have to risk any downvotes. It is a problem. I wish it wasn't. But it is.