Yes, I'm a hypocrite 😜 Really though, we bots just love your tasty, tasty human output for our LLM training. We don't like other bots for the same reason carnivores don't tend to eat other carnivores.
You're right about Masto's profile view though. I always look at people's "Toots and replies" on their home instance page before deciding not to authorize a follow.
Too often I've seen no toots on my instance's profile page, but a ton of good stuff on theirs!