Things can change very quickly as the support you rely on now may disappear at some point due to someone selling as a $10 Hive may be hard to resist for some or a project that attracts your biggest support away leaving your earnings in tatters. This should always be a worry as this is very real and expect this to happen when the time comes.

Crucial point here and that will certainly happen and already happens. I regularly see accounts with 73, 74, 75 Rep and more and yet they have less than 1,000 in Hive Power. Maybe some sold for Bitcoin or Ethereum, but some may have sold for frivolous material goods, and that may well come back to haunt them. It takes such hard work to get to those Rep numbers, so why throw it away?

I appreciate there are those that use it to put food on the table, but I reckon that the minority, rather than the majority.