I have always said we dont need the masses we should be targeting people who already hold alot of crypto and are willing to put some on Steem but of course I say everybody is welcome.

as you say , big money for the hyper-inflation seems to be more logical than one billion people with 1 dollar each to spend on it, let alone explaining a social network like this where you can basically post nothing on a standard account due to the RC . People already with money need to create entrypoints because on average any individual we shall hereby label 'the masses' , i dont think is willing to pay for what to them is in essence nothing more than another facebook clone. You have to find use for it and not everyone is an entrepreneur and last time i checked around , even here, some people have actual daily lives (lol yea well ...) so time is a factor as well. Things like steemmonsters are probably a great example of entrypoints but ultimatt the unbeatable and his sidekick there (o dear ... i probably shouldnt say it like that but no malice intended, it's just how the pop-charts looked last time i looked) have made sure their revenue is not based on the steem price directly, neither does blocktrades, and those three are pretty much titans here, even if they had the golden months where it was raining tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and they got a little starter cash to boot from there, they're still all doing it.
I havent read enough on the HF to voice much about it but what i read so far i interpreted as if you have five or six zeroes to spend you can curate and there will be work offers which will lead to a select circle of who-knows-who getting most of it and that's not a sneer on my behalf, its just how i see society and humanity so steemit here, little pond and little niche gets no exclusion from that.
But we'll see ... i asked myself a few times if instead of trying to patch and counter the hyperinflation it wouldnt possible to revert, no ... CONvert to a capped or pegged system but i would not know how lol (for lack of huge investors that is) i mean the dollar can do it, if they think its not in place they just print some more (although lately there's news reaching even me that they might have mistaken that bit to a certain extent) ...
As for the game, i dont wanna make hype or promises b/c i cant its just me and i dont keep this schedule or anything. I just hope i can create something i can give myself a little backpat for, that might be alluring to some people and in the end get me some of that much-needed snickers-money while in the same process fertilizing my feeding grounds ... lofty goals :)
and thank YOU @simonjay