Congratulations on your sixth Hive B-Day! We didn't engage a lot in the past, but you are among my favorite followers for a reason...

You have opened a lot of topics in this post and I will try to pick just a few to reply... 😃 As HIVE is my passion and my home, I'm brainstorming about it night and day... lol...

The thing with "marketing efforts of HIVE"... Yes, we had a few attempts, but I agree with you that it should be taken to the 2nd layer and dApps should be the best HIVE advertisement... But, to that happen, we need more QUALITY dApps that can do that job... Dozens of Splinterlands, more transparent "tribe outposts", and probably more DeFi solutions...

I'm glad that you pointed out the Odysee example for decentralization... The thing that became obvious with them came to the surface when the token value dropped a lot... Then, you realize that people who are publishing videos there are doing it because they know that the content will not be removed, and not because they were expecting some upvotes and monetary value...

Also, agree with your opinion about Hive Social Media DApps suffering... the whole system requires repolishing... and that usually takes time... + building the audience...

All the best in the years to come!