I once said that steemit is a content-based platform and people have forgotten that.
And I also have said that most who write good content doesn't earn much here.
But I don't remember saying anything about unethical, low quality post and any problem related to upvote bots.
I just didn't find them useful or beneficial.
My opinion on things like that doesn't matter, so I don't believe wasting much time on debating things like that.
And no, I think the biggest problem of steemit is not enough quality content to consume for its user base.