Sounds like your are suggesting a steem fork?
Also something to think about is steemit ecosystem is it almost acting like the real world. For instance if someone who never used steem before but had a ton of money and started an account today, he/she can basically buy themselves massive amount of awards through bots. Now just like in the real world if that same person wanted to invest their money into something they know nothing about they go to a bank and sign up for some financial product. The rich get richer and the poor stay where they are.
Steemit is a product at the end of the day. People buy into it is what makes it work. It will be unfair to not mention the few early adopters to steem that they are hodling a ton of SP, (over 100k) and have people send them SBD for upvotes. This is bound to happen whether we have bots or no bots. To try to stop this is to protect the steemit ecosystem but I think inherently it will always exist. The whales have too much SP to not sway their power over the smaller majority of steemians.
That would require to be implemented in a fork, yes. But before we get to that, it's a discussion we need to have IMHO.
The Internet, inevitably, is a mirror of real life (society). With all its good and also bad. The beauty of the Internet though, is that it is much faster, and we are given a stab at an alt-secondchance.
Thanks for your comment, @mawit07. ☕️