Just because you cant run your bots that doesnt mean IG is dying.
Thats what they said about fb years ago. iG is going to take its place etc etc.
The problem is the botters and influencers. People are getting sick and tired of the countless bot accounts following them, me included.
Internet Marketers are ruining the platform.
I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who is just a content creator/influencer. I only got into this realm of marketing in search for a way to get over the hump of Instagram's earlier platform-ruining tactics, ie. the original implementation of the algorithm. It's virtually impossible to grow an account past the "micro-influencer" stage now without blackhat or funneling a following from another platform like youtube. No one has time to like and comment on hundreds of posts, and even if they did it takes forever compared to before when you could just post good content and people would see it