IMO the main reason the Hive price isn't doing well is that it's not on enough exchanges. Nothing to do with the 13 weeks to powerdown.

Steem has an eastern user base and is on all the eastern exchanges.

Hive has a western user base but is not on the main western exchanges (Kraken, Coinbase etc). Investors have their favourite exchanges and won't bother investing in coins that arn't on those exchanges.

Instead of tinkering endlessly with the rules of how Hive works, people need to focus on getting Hive on more exchanges.