I powered down my Hive to just over 200HP as well. Not for the reasons you did. I needed the extra money for a bit. In that time I kept powering up POB and other Layer 2 tokens. Though I do agree with you. For now I'll probably let my hive grow every so often and then will power it down to where it is here. I will be focusing on #pob and #vyb myself and posting in places like #informationwars and #deepdives (when I think I did a deep dive). I am hopeful for #vyb. In my opinion it is the centralization of power followed by downvoting that made steemit/steem unattractive in the long run. I do see the same thing happening here. Hell I had someone downvote my post where all I was talking about was that my dog of 12 years just died in my arms and I was heartbroken.

I'm with you here. Hopefully #vyb works out.