Let's say an investor was testing the water - let's say all his posts were downvoted so he pulled 1/4 million HP out, decided not to do any further investing in Hive, and was biding time to extract a little public retribution :)

If most of his friends had already quit he might take a new interest in other platforms!

But he might not be too pissed off if he made a 6x gain on his Hive investment, after already doing roughly the same on Steemit.

End of an era.