There was nothing new about Hive. It was clearly a Fork of steem, containing all the information from steem. So the term 'airdrop' wasn't really an airdrop. People just got the same coins they had on the previous chain. Only this time, some accounts were restricted, and that was contentious.

The Steem community also performed a fork, and this time, they did the same thing. Zeroed the accounts of a select group of individuals and moved it to different account. You could say they probably should have changed their name from Steem to something else, say 'Hiver' so it might look different. But you can clearly see the similarity here. A contentious fork too.

To me, both sides have done the same thing to each other. There's nothing more we can do about it.