You are missing the point. It's about anticipating what stacker will like. If you upvote something that does not get further upvoted, you lose money. So the bot is only successful if it recommends good content early, based on the community standards.

SN also has an algorithm, the only difference is that the algorithm is based on zaps **and** trust

External SN recommendation system for fun and profit

we are tired of algorithms and bots, that's why we use SN... let stackers decide what's  good content