I watch this with cautious anticipation, at least.
You make a good point about dead tokens... but it's not really a Hive problem, it's a Crypto problem, rooted in the "Create Token, Get Rich" mindset that also drove the "dot-com boom and bust" of yesteryear.
@pharesim's words speak well to this.
That said, even if just 1-in-10 projects started went on to a measure of sustainable success, we'd be way ahead of the game.
RE: VSC - When the tokens come