actually i take that back, i have one other problem:

The reason the voting change was introduced was because there was a very large number of people in the community who felt that too much power was in the hands of voting bots, and normal users did not have enough say.

No reason was ever given for introducing this change. In fact, it was originally peddled very aggressively as not a change at all and, as you noted, was listed as a bug fix. Afaik even though a lot of users have a problem with whale curation lists (bot lists), thats not really an issue of bots thats an issue of there being a list.

I would challenge you to find me one serious post, prior to the announcement of 14.0, that posed bot inufluence as a major problem