I find it a bit harsh, though, to state that you are not full-time Steemians and this is the reason why "auto voting" is set, nor am I by the way and many more curators,

I think there's perhaps a perception that in order to be seen as "committed", it's a requirement to always be visible, always posting, etc. which isn't what we tend to do as individuals.

but I guess shortly there will be no longer SC teams

What makes you think this?

Smart plan, you vote, and the SC account follows.

It's something I've been doing with my account for a while and it makes a lot of sense when the objective is to maximise the support of others. We have a lot of criteria (enforced by code) so that the curator account will only vote when we want it to (e.g. @chriddi and I vote on a lot of each other's memes and it wouldn't be appropriate for a follow-vote). It makes everything much more efficient and saves the mistakes of forgetting to log out / in, etc.

Time for something new also means that it's no longer an issue to be a team from the same continent, even the same country? If that's the case, from August on we can expect huge changes.

We've never been very good at following the "rules" 😆