It actually isn't good news.

It shows that Hive devs are getting poached by external forces and that the Hive development as a whole will be fragmented. Just ask @therealwolf. A talented individual that left his own project to be a SplinterLands employee. Why... ? Structure, sustainability, delivery and stable rewards among some of the reasons I imagine.

No wonder @blocktrades did what he did with HF26. He needs new devs to come in and fill the void.

It will at least be positive for Keychain since they are now part of a high level/high demand networked team that is actually pushing with much gusto in the Web3 development space. Maybe keychain will make their app mobile offerings resemble an app from this decade and not look like a borrowed template from days of myspace.

It's evident that Hive has a very long way to go to exist as more than just a pet project of a select group of reclusive devs that ran off when a money man came in and secured the steem chain for the Koreans.

So steem stayed Korean (kicked out white devils) but now Hive is in a nutshell... LATIN AMERICAN.

Will the coming year be a year of gentrification (an attempt by some devs to kill rewards for blogging) or do coders need to have n their CV: Languages ENG/ESP.

¡Si Señor!

One thing about Latinos.. they move as an organism. The influx of more ESP content is because of that influential and opportunity-sharing behavior.

If Hive stops rewarding ESP content, it will likely lose the entire input from Latinos... and their input is for the most part, the bulk of Hive content (outside of SplinterLands.)

So if devs want a 'new image to market' then they better start actually making the offerings of Hive be attractive to a wider cohort of users.

Them quotes from @keychain show that outside of the HIVE bubble, there's not much really here that is impressive to outsiders.

So "getting more to join" is the curse. Because community thinks that's all it takes, but devs don't want to have it until they've finished their vision... however many years that will take.