The DAO code does not come from Hive-engine but from ARCHON, and it was set up to have decentralized voting on where the community would go and hosted by the founder, but all decicions on chain has to be verified with the keys to the accounts in question, so unless the DAO itself has been given Active Authority to those accounts, or other individuals have multisig access to the Active Authority it is only superficial and does not change anything on chain.

The DAO would basically be Layer 3 here.