I view it as a way of BB priotirizing online managers against auto-bidders.
can you explain how it can prioritize online managers against auto-bidders? It seems from what has been said, auto-bid does not have to meet the same minimum requirements that manual bidding is subjected to.
And I think it's been mentioned here, but the bidding for staff is different than the bidding for players. An auto-bid for staff is still 'stealing' a manual bid as opposed to raising the bid by the minimum required amount. It used to be like that for players but had been changed.
I should say, I'm a fan of the auto-bid, and these are minor changes that affect small %s in the bids, but if it needs to err on the side of prioritizing online managers as it seems like you want to do.