Start throwing in all these complexities and percentages and all you'll get are a tiny handful of crypto investors.

This. One of the strengths of this system is ease of use. Not looking to jump through even more hoops and rent my credits and whatever else was being discussed to do. If it's not easily understood, the entry is going to exclude more than it does now.

Fakebook sells worthless game tokens all day long for cheats and specials. Artists use Patreon for compensation. Reddit offers useless gold to share from one user to another. Not sure why there hasn't been a stronger push to gain producers and their followers. Invest in yourself, then you can reward others from your claim from the reward pool without ever touching your initial investment. On top of that, you will share in the rewards for the appreciation, as well as watch your investment grow for sitting there waiting to be used.

I also think most aren't investing in this to gain some kind of rewards in some other side token. I saw that shit over on Steem with a weekly growing number of shit coins with no use being created on that Steem engine. I began powering down the minute Sun said Steem is going to be a Tron side shit token. If this becomes some kind of you have to rent your stake scheme involving dapps and such I will do the same here. Thinking most of the problems so far is instead of looking at businesses that would be enhanced using Steem and now Hive, so many startups looking to fund themselves off the system itself.

The birds in hand keep being overlooked.