I kind of feel that fundamentally the negative feedback loop might turn into a positive one. Price going down = people leave, less excitement, HBD conversion pressurre...

This to the point where very few people are left and some of the long-term people start accumulating and increasing their stake. As less people are here, the ones left get higher post payouts, this brings some excitement, price that slowly goes higher, potentially more new people coming in, metrics going up and price rises higher.

unfortunately Hive still has too many fundamental flaws that haven't been fixed so it feels a matter of time before it all starts coming down again at some point.