I don't think that's the case. Since every new user needs resource credits to transact on the chain, that increases the demand on Hive, so the user base can't increase and everything else stay even. An increased user base is an increase of demand on the token.

Also speaking outside of abstractions, the reality is if we had that much user growth, speculation would dramatically increase as well.

Most other social blockchain apps are a single application, so they almost inherently have a better UX. THAT is the thing. THAT is the difference. People getting ignored, that's a UX problem. The vast majority of people don't come here and get downvoted to oblivion.