A clearer sense of direction on Hive will only emerge if ...

See thats the problem right at the start. 😅

People like discussions, like talking about stuff, and that rarely or never leads to anything.

The truth of the matter is when it comes to DOING, the only time you can force anyone to do anything is …. and this might shock many people … IS IF YOU PAY THEM.

All of what you listed is fine, and i have actually implemented some of it where I can realistically implement it like with VP. Not because I was paid, but because it was damaging not to. But thats partial, inplementing this accross the board is almost impossible.
Most places I cannot push this as I cannot force anyone to do anything or do work or action that they would need to do.

For Valueplan I can do something as an example, thats coming out for Q1 of new budget. Basically most of the second part you listed is a part of the new approach. Execution and KPI based. And im not talking worthless KPIs we have been focuing on right now, but economically driven, focusing on measurable results that arent just “this many people showed up at an event” or “this many accounts were made”. Ofc, not all efforts will have these same KPIs and most times because of having to rely on others that arent accountable in any way, you could even say its even more beneficial to cut some expenditure because the delivery wont be reliable.
Mostly, right now the KPIs we hold in high regards are intermediate KPIs we have been treating as final outcomes. And almost in 100% of cases theyve been utterly worthless because no follow up was made, no final conversion could be made, funnels broken, wrong regions of the world focused, all of it stemming from poor strategy.

Who are you going to tell to do all this stuff you listed here? Stakeholders? Specific dapps?
Me?
You know what… Sure… lets put it this way. Im currently one of the very few people onchain in terms of BD, conflict resolution, results, fund raise for my projects and others projects, in terms of stakeholder relationships that i could theoretically get this done. Yeah, Im pretty confident I could do it.

Give me “the mandate of heaven”, “community mandate” in better words where the community makes a statement that my word carries the strength of the stakeholders and community behind it. Pay me 6 figures per year and ill do it.

No? You saying this wouldnt pass? People will bitch? They will say “if only we discuss all these things a bit more, share great ideas between ourselves and during meetups, and if people only say stuff, and agree onchain it will all magically be fixed on its own”. You know kind if what weve been doing for last decade?

If you think thats how it would go you would be correct. And that my friend is why your effort writing this comment and me responding to it is not worth the block its printed in.