I guess you and I think a lot a like. I like the delegate to bid bots versus powering down solution. If those were the only two options, I wouldn't see much sense in sticking around or participating.

I think your thoughts on witness votes are dead on. We do need to be informed about what decisions and what activities the witnesses are involved with and how those are impacting us. And when things change, we need to take a hard look and determine if the vote should be given to someone else.

I know there are plenty of people with less SP than me that are already delegating to someone or some project. I've not reached the level of SP yet where I feel like that's the best use of my SP, or what might be left over. I'm not even sure I'm in favor of delegation yet, though I see it as better than many other practices on STEEM.