When it comes to development on Hive, I am counting only from when the fork happened. Development on the old chain was existent, no one can deny that, but not at full speed due to steemit. I may be wrong but that's how I see it.
Now things have changed and the result is visible. We have so many new things already in just a few months and as I said, this is just a beginning. So fasten your seat belts!