Sounds like a debate between opt-in and opt-out. Why not both? Do an AB test of a Bot vs. a Service. In some cases, opt-in is good (see: organ donors), in other cases it's bad (see: Internet Explorer).

What if there was a community-vote that turned a bot and a particular version of said bot from Opt-Out (app style) to Opt-In (bot style)?

I, for one, welcome our bot-coding overlords that clean up my code and optimize it on each commit. Might save me a lot of time and a lot of power and thought... if it's peer reviewed, like all open source software.