I’m not sure I see the actual difference between:

1. An account that consumes global feed, reports on content quality, and can be followed by others for recommendations.

2. An account (already followed) that mutes unwanted content and accounts, and whose followers also mute said content and accounts.

It’s true that WoT tools can be improved to provide better implementations of 2. Also true that 1 can fit nicely into WoT based filtering.

AI bots are red herring. Both 1 and 2 can be accomplished (hopefully with transparency) effectively by bots OR by human “influencers”. Both are respectable options with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Dystopian these are not. With freedom to choose and a free market of choices … WoT based filtering SHOULD be available in as many forms as can be imagined.

WoT needs better tools … not fewer choices.