If this can't convince people that steam is completely fake and gay now I don't know what will. I suspect what's happening is the bot farms have all realised that Valve don't give a shit about doing any kind of moderation on the steam marketplace. There was also another new shitty idle clicker shovelware clone I saw pop up and it's called Shrimp. The usual haunts like CS:2 seem to be dropping and perhaps Dota 2 technically.
I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of these shitty F2P titles were using bot farms to bump their way up the charts too especially the Chinese developers. I can't help it, I find the maths behind all of this fakery fascinating and even the normies are noticing. It's also getting much easier to figure out which reviews are bots versus legit, unsurprisingly a lot of the positive bot reviews are fake as fuck gibberish or shitty memes.
Your inability to read the room is one of a plethora of reasons people find you annoying. Nobody is interested in your groundbreaking theory that people manipulate algorithms by using bots to boost their shitty products. Nobody is surprised by Valve's lack of response because they know Valve is slow to do anything and that it's a result of the flexible, flat corporate hierarchy they've bragged about.
It's just another card/item mill + market speculation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVLPx-4O48