Thanks for your comment, @therealwolf.
I understand why bots are used. As said, I'm not against that. I probably understand that more ven than I understand the covert expectation, sense of entitlement almost, people seem to have with their content needing to get noticed. It is not because you go and stand at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park (London, UK) that I should also care about you standing there. Or listen.
It's an inherent element of the Internet and has existed ever since pre-www days. The Internet opens floodgates. Curation is historically an integral part of the Internet, another being search and search eventually becoming the curator for most.
Promotional tools are good. Can be good. But they can also become evil.
But when we focus on them being promotional rather than call a spade a spade and say they are advertising platforms built to fit and operate in this model, then the argument becomes a straw man argument and I need to call BS. Let's find ways in which we can allow both sides to live in harmony and thrive though. It isn't that hard to make that happen. It does require blatant honesty tho, especially from those who are on the financially operative side.