Totally agree with your sentiments! The value of STEEM is in the network/community.
It's hard convincing people to delegate their steem for long term investments, so I started with the low hanging fruit by encouraging others to upvote new users and low SP accounts by using the #upvoteplankton hashtag (hope you don't mind me mentioning this here! I don't get any reward or income from it)
I guess these same people would have used Facebook but never bothered to buy the Facebook shares in its IPO.
I have drawn the comparison many times, but imagine you could have bought Facebook shares two years in (2008, four years before it's IPO) or when you first started using it?
By buying and investing in steem power, you are essentially becoming an owner of one of the most promising blockchain projects around. It's not vapour ware... It's up and running and growing every day!
Those chasing short term gains by delegating to bots are basically giving the bots their steem power to build the brand's of others and missing out on the true value!
Anyway, I could go on for ages, but I will stop here. Keep up the great work!