In my opinion the amount of yield offered should have never been static in the first place.
Static both in terms of the percentage and the fact that it's allocated to locked stake.

If this had just been a HIVE/HBD AMM the entire time with variable yield depending on how big the pool was we'd be way better off right now. Locking HBD in a 3 day contract doesn't have any value to Hive itself. It's only been allowed to exist because Hive users like it.

The free market really should be determining things like this.
Less people staking their money should result in higher yield.
More people staking should result in less yield.
In fact that's exactly how it works for Hive and the reward pool already.