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Because they don't want to piss off the whales. 🐳

But I know the whales agreed to the most recent update that ended up losing them a lot of power on the platform. I don't see why they wouldn't agree to this as well?

I think even if they did it might be too late anyway, the vote bots are already in place to upvote the whales, so even if they stopped voting on their own the bots will still come.