The key advantage of the open and decentralized blockchain (or open projects in general) is that many initiatives can be developed by different groups of people and they all can have different ideas, priorities and strategies.

And yet, we all benefit from successes and failures of each other. If an app can bring more people, engagement or increase demand for HIVE, all other apps would benefit from that as well. And failed experiments teach us what not to do, or very often give us new levels of understanding which can be used to build even greater things.