I'm grateful for the stability that Hive provides within my life. I'm not a billionare yet, but that would be boring anyway... :P

Haha, I'm with you on the gratefulness part, gratefulness to where we are brings us far. <3

you're probably right that people involved here most likely could have made a lot more in other projects

haha while this is true, as I lived it myself, it was part of the point I was trying to make, is that looking purely at economic value, Hive hasn't been able to attract much. Which brings me to my next worries about the fundamentals.

but the fundament of Hive is solid & strong.
Hive is trying to become an applications blockchain. While there are many pure DPOS chains out there who are already tried to become one, but have not gained much attraction. There are no pure DPOS chains that have reached the top 20 in market cap. Which is very worrying, and at the same time maybe a sign that DPOS is broken? EOS has fallen off from top 10 to top 44.

Also about the decentralization of this chain, I can give arguments on why it's not really decentralized (I have touched on this in the post, but you're willing to discuss this, I'm game haha).