I don't doubt it, steemcleaners has had that problem from the very beginning.
I was here.

It doesn't change hiring a bully to take rewards into something I would support.
You can see from my unpopularity that I say things people don't like to hear.
Most are scared to speak truth to power.

It doesn't cause me to go out and pay for some rewards.
Which is why I flagged your post, but upvoted your comment.

The way I see it, there was a hijackening of the chain to facilitate abuse by the few.
When you pay for rewards, you pay for abuse that benefits only you, and the particular bully.
I don't think that 'bid bots are bad' is really contentious as a concept, at this point.