Unfortunately, I agree with everything you said... Personally, for the last few years, I remember asking multiple times the same question over and over again, all projects that would ask for DHF funding in their "presentation" events... In Discord, on chain, or anywhere else... the question was: "When will your project be self-sustainable?"...

I did get an answer many times, which was always the same "We are working on it...", but on the other side, I never saw anyone laying out the HOW TO be self-sustainable in any of their proposals...

Sorry, but the answer "SOON" isn't convincing anymore... We heard it too many times...

If the ideology is “no ads, no paid features, no business model,” then pay the team and infrastructure out of your own pocket. That ideology is expensive. Do not charge all holders for it.

That's just hypocrisy... I want to be a vegan, but you will eat vegetables for me... 😃

To finish on a positive note... HIVE isn't broken... Chain works... Token economy is broken, incentives are broken... As you said...

That means businesses. Ads. Paid features. Better onboarding. Real products. External income. Revenue. Hard cuts. Smaller proposals. Clear metrics. Less ideology. Less marble tower. Less pretending that we are above economics.

Thanks for the post! Appreciate you sharing your opinion! 🙏