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Voting in itself isn't necessarily the issue. It's users being able to see those scores that feeds the echo chamber.
It affects posting and commenting habits because people quickly learn what's popular and what isn't. That leads to both self-censorship and just shouting out popular views for validation without putting much critical thought into it.
It also primes users to approach posts or comments with a strong bias - positive or negative - based on the up- or downvote count before they've even read a word.
You are right. Thankfully Mlem (Client) is fairly customizable so I can disable it client side.
To be clear, most users can't easily see votes. Only community moderators can quickly access vote data within communities they moderate - and instance admins can see all votes. Yes, people /can/ go to lemvotes, but it's often just not worth it.
I think it being transparent in this way is good for the fediverse.
I think in this case they just mean the total count and score, not who voted what. For that, I think most clients readily display it. I see it on both the desktop website and in Voyager.