Yes, a one-stop-shop for accessing the info is valuable. Facebook had that appeal, pp sharing stuff and you can see it all to get convenient access to lots of stuff you might be interested in.

The Hive name seems to have been a bit hasty, but oh well.

Well a few lines, there's more than a few lol. Wisdom, do most posts on trending have wisdom? Opinion indeed, I wasn't trying to be wise. Is there a need for a solution? What's the problem again? Would anyone really pay $1 for one piece of written content on Hive, Steem or any other website? Maybe a subscription where what you read costs you a few cents on average, depending on how often you read it. It's almost all overvalued when you think about how much you would be willing to pay from your pocket. But I getcha ;)