Hey man! Wish you are doing good!

At the moment though, I do think it is possible to get rewarded on Hive, but it isn't just through Hive itself. I think Leo is a good example of this, where quite a few took the opportunity to build in a way they couldn't on Hive alone. Splinterlands is another example of this.

I have not been update how this works, but I suspect they are still using the hive blockchain. If so they will still need to invest in hive tokens to be able to do transactions. And it is a pity if those hive tokens themselves do not hold value. If a subtoken is more valuable than the hive token itself, there would be different ecosystems, which will be similar to ethereum, only in the case of ethereum, ETH would become more valuable.