and lead to increased selling towards lower lows - something which us whales can prevent (but do we want?)
Can we just let anything grow organically? people or manipulators like you are the plague which will prove to be the fall of crypto
Every order on an open book is manipulation. You cannot accumulate XMR without moving the price -- even a dark book would still impact the market, but an open book has more (but different) impact. There is nothing wrong with this kind of manipulation. It is unavoidable.
Manipulation which is tortious (bad manipulation) is stuff like self-dealing, or generally dis-informing the public (either in the market by posting orders which cannot be executed against, or via side-channels, such as press releases about flaws in the protocol).