This is pretty spot on, glad someone had the guts to say it. There is a lot wrong with the platform that drives people away but like you said, there is more right and it has huge potential if we can find our footing as a community. Bring finance , social, engineer into one functioning brain to see and understand all aspects. I can see how reducing the inflation could be a temporary bandaid to add a few pennies to the price but keyword, "temporary", it doesn't fix the bad behaviors of those who chose to abuse the platform consistently. The problem remains attracting and retaining users. Many new small users collectively could pump the price rather than looking for large shiny investors. It might be optimal but fucking with tokenomics until everyone using the thing worth investing into leaves one by one with each fork. I'm no chart reader but I can read that one and it's not looking good!! 😂

Accepting the fact that the content consumer everyone is chasing will never join the platform but Hive is a tool to create our content, we still have to share it on regular social media for viewers. Now if writers could earn via adds by sharing their content outside of the platform and outside the pay window, more would share it. We might even be able to take a bit of the bloggpress. I know they have grand Dap plans for this place but putting the horse before the cart doesn't make things move faster. Reality this is still a blogging platform for now and how we get eyes is by going to get em. Some by marketing some by cashing in on indirect traffic that will never sign up for this place. The revenue could be split with dev and the support of new projects, some could be burned and writers getting a cut, giving a use case for the token.

Maybe someday we can move forward once the every day average users voice and what they would like to see matters into developing a product that people want to get addicted to and never leave like some of us hardcore hive optimists. I can see a temporary tinker with the token distribution because not enough users currently but not as a permanent thing, even temporarily it will drive users away and I think that's the wrong approach.