I am absolutely fine with Hive being a hobby, I will stay here even if I have to restart my witness node (I am sure there will be a witness exodus if HIVE/HBD becomes worthless) and keep interacting and participating in events.

But that is to be the road we gown down to we need to pretend we can finance projects that want to have six figures like a business but don't want to be self sufficient like a business NOW. That goes for witnesses and funded projects.

Edit: As for the problem, none, I can't also think of one. The fact that our feeds are boring was never solved and that is something that the devs could tackle that brings more value than yet another scalability improvements. The chronological timeline type of feed is not attractive to most users. Some may value but because it is so hard for frontends to customize the feeds (snaps and eaves tried to do it with comments) makes we lose appeal as a social network