Yeah and as I said to a certain degree it's fine, it's just that when they then also stop trying it becomes an issue. Let's take me as an example since I do get a fair share of autovotes. If suddenly my videos became shorter, if I just repeated what I said last week, if I stopped replying to comments, voting on others/unique users, etc, etc. At some point this content is going to be overrewarded because all I'm doing is sharing videos from YouTube and nothing else but still getting the same votes I for from when I "still cared". Some aim for that directly because they don't wanna try, they just wanna beat curators who may not post or other users who may not have stake at growing theirs by receiving 8.5% APR on curation + guaranteed votes on every post daily.
Hence author rewards shouldn't be guaranteed and not every post needs to land on the exact same number of votes/value.
I've definitely noticed some authors will write about the same subjects and essentially reword the same points over and over in order to collect on their autovotes - and it can be both frustrating to watch and unencouraging for newer people who make great original posts but don't have autovotes rolling in.
Totally get it. I guess I am still new to this.