Most of the users are bots, or the same user with multiple accounts trying to farm as much rewards within the system as possible.

• Most people leave either because they feel it's not worth getting rewards and no engagement
• The rewards dry up
• The in-fighting begins with other stakeholders of a large size

I am not sure you're aware of the certain discord groups the normie hive users aren't privy too, they were exposed during the time of the fork with steem, a lot of unsavory things were said out loud but as is the case in crypto people have the memories of a gold fish, no integrity or are too lazy to ask questions

You don't have to believe me, you're free to scour the chain, twitter screen shots, articles, the info is there it just keeps getting ratio'd by bullshit like Hive fixes this posts to obfuscate the obvious issues that no one wants to admit