People can and have been stepping up, for Hives first hard fork (24), there was not many people making suggestions. For HF 25, I have seen a little bit more interest and people making suggestions.

Me I have commented my thoughts on the hard forks several time and on almost all of the HF post from the dev teams you will find a comment from me. I am not a coder, and I certainly am not an investor, and I could not really blog my way out of a wet paper bag. But I like Hive, so I make my desires for the hard forks known.

If there are parts of Hive people don't like they need to step up to the plate and take a swing at letting their thoughts be known especially during Hard Fork season.

To be honest we need leadership in general. Decentralization should limit governance and promote leadership. I'm not sure if we're actually achieving that right now.

The hard fork discussions are a good place for people looking for help, or for a leader, to possibly find it/them. Not everyone wants to follow someone though, and that is what makes this decentralized place called Hive so much fun.