Well, that could change if everyone would stop being so shy / concentrated on content creation and started engaging more.
With bidbots? You mean autovoters? Yeah, some people don't have time to, or the will power needed to manually curate so they follow curation trails or individuals to curate them automatically.
We have to face the facts to realize the problem and then we might fix it :)
I started writing a 2nd response and well, it became a post in itself @runicar.
I have given you credit and you can find it here:
https://steemit.com/esteemapp/@rebeccaryan/almost-dead-in-the-water-f7ae1d89c9586
How nice. Glad to have inspired you and thanks for the credit.